Rumor and Conspiracy Formation in Post Truth Era under COVID-19

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220502.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-10; Post-truth; Rumor; Conspiracy formation

Abstract

The technique of event and news dissemination is evolving as the Internet grows in popularity and social media becomes more prevalent. Users may only get one side of an event or one of many viewpoints on an event when they get information via social media. Based on medical information distributed on social media during the COVID-19 epidemic, this paper will examine the influence of the post-truth age on the Internet environment. Further analysis will be carried out in this study by consulting scholarly literature and obtaining pertinent data from it. This paper will discuss how the Internet environment in the “post-truth” period is influenced by numerous elements such as Internet information, community, content creation style, and algorithm. This paper gets the conclusion that the spreading of rumors involves multiple aspects, including users’ emotions, interpersonal communication on social media and algorithms.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiru Huang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/14
TI  - Rumor and Conspiracy Formation in Post Truth Era under COVID-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Comprehensive Art and Cultural Communication (CACC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 146
EP  - 150
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220502.032
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220502.032
ID  - Huang2022
ER  -