FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO INFODEMIC: A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE
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https://doi.org/10.5935/2317-2622/direitomackenzie.v15n214781Keywords:
Pandemia. Infodemia. Sociedad moderna. Sistemas sociales.Abstract
The pandemic demonstrated the lack of meaning in modern society,
showing the absence of certainties, taking into account semantic gaps such as
truth, values, rights, foundations, and current social systems to build meaning
and legitimacy. Amidst so much information to face the emergency situation,
through the media, there has been simultaneously more misinformation, circulation
of false news (false and erroneous news), a situation that became known
as infodemia. So the more you know, the more you don’t know. The disinformation
virus helped the disease spread on a large scale, multiplying and spreading
problems such as hate speech, racism, the invention of alterity as a threat, the
polarization of political debate, the potentization of contagion, and, in general,
precariousness and the impossibility of plausibly controlling the impact of the
pandemic and its consequences. Therefore, the role of law and other mechanisms,
and their limits, to contain this problem is analyzed.
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