"The Complusphere Has Its Own Dynamics": with Media Coverage Around the Hantavirus, False Information Explodes on Social Networks
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Since the advent of Hantavirus, a virus that can be transmitted from animal to human, and which has already caused several victims, conspiracy networks are already at work on social platforms. A speech well aided by the trauma caused by the pandemic of human...
Media outlets such as FranceInfo and Le Parisien shared the video on March 12, 2020, to report on the measures implemented by the French government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including the closure of nurseries, schools, and universities. As of May 8 at 3:30 p.m., neither Macron nor his government had announced the closure of schools due to hantavirus. At the time of publication of this article, one of the eight French citizens traveling on…
It circulates on social networks a video of the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, announcing the closure of schools and educational centers in general “from this Monday” and “until further notice”, supposedly, to stop the advance of the hantavirus. But it is abule, since the images correspond to the confinement by the pandemic of the Covid-19 in 2020. Messages circulate on social networks like X, where some reach 1.7 million views, and YouTu…
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