Covid-19 Fake News Analysis from a Social Media Perspective
Abstract
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus – more popularly known as COVID-19 – has spread around the globe, mankind is fighting this new unseen enemy. This paper comes to review the way that the new CORONAVIRUS is perceived all over the world. In the current scientific literature, there is a gap when speaking about the influence and the impact of fake news. This evaluation corresponds to the main contribution of this paper.
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