Infodemic during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had one obvious and undeniable difference compared to its predecessors: It occurred in the age of information and technology. Although many factors such as advanced technologyscience, wide possibilities, traditional and social media may seem like an advantage over previous pandemics at first glance, we witnessed that this also caused major problems in the dissemination of information right at the beginning of the pandemic. Such that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared at the Security Conference- Munich in February 2020 (WHO, Munich Security Conference, 2020); "But we're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic." They introduced the word "infodemic" into our lives, which is not really new but we have not heard it for a long time. In other words, they gave a name to this situation citing fake news "spreads faster and more easily than this virus," which will have affected our lives. In conclusion, information pollution is a great threat to all measures taken to bypass the pandemic process with the least damage and therefore harms the well-being of people. We aim to gain insight into human behaviors and attitudes that are caused by the digital infodemic during the pandemic process. © 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.