Information sharing during the pandemic

Abstract

A pandemic of a VOCID-19 emerged with uncertain information about an unknown virus, making it difficult to determine what information was correct, especially in the early stages of the pandemic, and various problems arose. As the term “infodemics” was used, confusion caused by information became a social problem as much as confusion caused by viruses. In particular, social media has been the focus of much attention, and the uncontrolled spread of information by social media has become a social problem. In this presentation, we clarify the actual situation of information diffusion, including fake news, and show that social media has contributed to the diffusion of correct information to a certain extent.