Bibliographic citations
Coombes, A., (2023). Políticas Públicas en la Era de la Desconfianza y las Fake News.
Caso de Estudio: COVID-19 en Perú [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/672256
Coombes, A., Políticas Públicas en la Era de la Desconfianza y las Fake News.
Caso de Estudio: COVID-19 en Perú [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/672256
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title = "Políticas Públicas en la Era de la Desconfianza y las Fake News.
Caso de Estudio: COVID-19 en Perú",
author = "Coombes Perez, Andrea Georgina",
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year = "2023"
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COVID-19 transformed the world as we knew it. Public and private sectors of multiple countries joined forces in order to develop vaccines that could end the pandemic. However, this would not be possible if the population, considering their rights and responsibilities, did not voluntarily decide to receive the vaccine, for their own protection and of the people around them. The purpose of this research was to determine if, in the context of COVID-19, fake news is what causes people to decide not to get vaccinated, in the interest of understanding what approach public policies should have to counteract disinformation regarding this topic. To obtain this information, ‘anti-vaxxers’ of legal age, who live in the Metropolitan Lima area and have an online presence, were interviewed. The result of this research showed that fake news is not the main factor influencing the decision of anti-vaxxers, but that trust in fake news is a consequence of the root problem: anti-vaxxers in Lima do not trust the government, nor their abilities to manage a pandemic, nor the messages they transmit through traditional and digital media; therefore, they seek other sources of information that align with their beliefs, worldviews, and experiences, to find a logical thought process that allows them to survive the pandemic by their own means.
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