الأخبار الزائفة في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي وأثرها على الوعي الصحي للجمهور العراقي تجاه جائحة كوفيد 19: دراسة ميدانية

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Recently, the term "fake news" has spread, which denotes "fabricated news" in contrast to "real data".

Fake news "is a dangerous weapon for societies and countries, as it poses a threat to the human mind and psyche, and the stability of And the security of society, especially with its uncontrolled spread, in light of the dominance of social media sites on the largest part of them, which requires firmness in confronting them and raising public opinion about how to deal with them.

The period of crises that a society may go through is the most appropriate and best environment in which fake news thrives, for example, what the world has gone through since the emergence of the Corona virus, where we witnessed a large number of publications containing fake news, including fabrication and official and institutional communications to delude the recipient of issuing These institutions provide new decisions and developments, .