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What is Mal-Information

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Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
A truth for harming another person, institution, or state.
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Disinformation, Post-Truth, and Naive Realism in COVID-19: Melting the Truth
Vahit Çalişir (Iskenderun Technical University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch014
Abstract
Disinformation as an activity of disseminating misinformation finds its justification from the beliefs of individuals. These beliefs are like psychological barriers in minds to see the reality due to naive realism. The power and information relationship triggers authority seekers to produce their own truth. This truth mainly resembles what people want to believe. The post-truth era is proceeding to destroy the truth through making individuals skeptical to the truth. And their means to convey those misinformation is social media. In this chapter, the relationship among the post-truth era, naive realism, and disinformation is focused in terms of COVID-19.
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