Fake News Pandemic: Fake News And False Information About Covid-19 and An Analysis on FactChecking from Turkey in Sample Teyit.org

Year 2022, , 117 - 143, 31.01.2022

Recep Ünal , Alp Şahin Çiçeklioğlu

https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1001922

Cited By: 2

Abstract

As in all crisis periods, eyes have turned to both mass media and social media platforms in the period of COVID-19. Misinformation about the spread of the disease, preventive measures and treatment methods can leave much deeper effects than the false news seen in other periods and cause the pandemic to spread further and seriously affect public health. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic becomes even more dangerous with the fake and false news pandemic, which is effective on a global scale, and the need for news validation activities and the organizations that carry out this process increases. In this study, fact-checking activities carried out by Teyit which continued to work as a member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) in Turkey, during the pandemi period were discussed. In the study, when compared to the same time period in 2018 in Turkey, the number of suspects examined by Teyit in the first three months of the year 2020 has been shown to increase. In addition, it was determined that the policy category, which ranks first in the questionable content type that has been passed through the fact-checking process, has been replaced by the health category

Keywords

Communication, COVID-19, Fake News, False News, Fact-Checking, Teyit.org

Yalan Haber Salgını: Teyit.Org Örnekleminde Covid-19 Salgınının Başında Türkiye’de Yalan Haber ve Yanlış Bilgi Akışı ve Doğrulamaya İlişkin Bir Analiz

Abstract

Tüm kriz dönemlerinde olduğu gibi, COVID-19 salgınında da gözler hem kitle iletişim araçlarına hem de sosyal medya platformlarına çevrilmiştir. Hastalığın yayılması, önleyici tedbirler ve tedavi yöntemleri ile ilgili yanlış bilgiler, salgın öncesi dönemde görülen yanlış haberlerden çok daha derin etkiler bırakabilir ve hastalığın daha da yayılmasına ve halk sağlığını ciddi şekilde etkilemesine neden olabilir. Dolayısıyla küresel ölçekte etkili olan yalan ve yanlış haber salgını ile COVID-19 salgını daha da tehlikeli hale gelmekte ve haber doğrulama faaliyetlerine ve bu süreci yürüten kuruluşlara olan ihtiyaç artmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, Uluslararası Haber Doğrulama Platformu üyesi olarak çalışmalarını sürdüren Teyit’in salgın döneminde Türkiye’de gerçekleştirdiği doğrulama faaliyetleri ele alınmıştır. Çalışmada, Türkiye’de 2018 yılının aynı dönemine kıyasla, 2020 yılının ilk üç ayında Teyit’in sorguladığı şüpheli sayısında artış olduğu görülmüştür. Ayrıca teyit sürecinden geçen şüpheli içerik türünde ilk sırada yer alan politika kategorisinin yerini sağlık kategorisine bıraktığı belirlenmiştir. COVID-19 ile ilgili şüpheli içeriklerin daha çok sosyal medya platformlarında görüldüğü ve Wardle’ın (Wardle, 2017) kategorizasyonuna göre yalan haberlerin yüzde 66’sının tamamen aldatma ve zarar verme amaçlı üretildiği de çalışmada elde edilen bulgular arasındadır.

Keywords

: İletişim, COVID-19, Yalan Haber, Asılsız Haber, Doğrulama, Teyit.org

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