Uma análise das fake news envolvendo a vacinação contra a Covid-19

Abstract

Currently, social media is present daily in the lives of the population and have become a source of information for many. However, a difficulty faced in this current scenario is the presence of fake news on the internet as a whole. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this problem intensified because it is such an important subject that involves people's health. Specifically, there have been many rumors about vaccination against the new coronavirus. Based on this, the need arose to analyze fake news involving vaccination against Covid-19 in order to understand what are the possible intentions behind the misinformation and how it may have influenced people to vaccinate or not. The study was carried out using Discourse Analysis of the French line, in order to understand and identify the discourses present in fake news about vaccination. The results identified the presence of a conspiracy discourse, as well as the presence of a strong political discourse in order to demoralize a public figure and his efforts to bring a vaccine to Brazil. In this way, it was possible to detect that the discourses present in fake news had the power to negatively influence the population. Consequently, future work could focus on analyzing data on vaccination coverage in the country and how these data relate to the results found.