توظيف الأخبار الملفقة في التضليل الإعلامي خلال جائحة كوفيد 19 بالجزائر: تحليل مضمون عينة من الأخبار الكاذبة على الفايسبوك

Abstract EN

This study deals with how to employ the fabricated news on Facebook in disinformation regarding the multi-dimensional crisis due to the “Covid 19” virus in Algeria, by analyzing the contents of a sample of this news that became very popular, in light of the spread of the Corona pandemic.

The study sought to find out the purposes of using fabricated news, the values contained in this news, its topics and ideas, as well as the interest in the role of the image in the manufacture of Fake News, by examining a sample of it in the last six months of 2022.

Accordingly, this study reached results, most notably the use of fabricated news in misleading, mobilization and incitement, focusing on topics of a socio-economic nature in the first place and political security in the second place, with great exploitation of the image in the dissemination of these fabricated news.