Fake News: The COVID-19 pandemic and its chronology in the tourism sector
Abstract
The social alarm generated by fake news spread exponentially through Twitter, Facebook or Instagram (where you can comment without contrasting) and social networks such as WhatsApp, facilitate and on many occasions make planning and tasks of public institutions difficult for manage the problem. The media and social networks have echoed from the first moment of the pandemic caused by the coronavirus since the end of 2019, causing a multitude of information globally. We are facing a double pandemic: the one generated by the coronavirus itself (COVID-19) and by the so -called fake news- lobes and uncontrolled information that ultimately leads to disturbance, uncertainty, uncontrolled alarmism and collective fear.
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