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- Title
Clones do YouTube: replataformização da irrealidade e infraestruturas de desinformação sobre a Covid-19.
- Authors
dos Santos Junior, Marcelo Alves
- Abstract
This paper analyzes false stories about Covid-19 from an infrastructure approach. Thus, we study clone websites that copy YouTube to re-platform the informational environment and spread confusing and sensationalist videos making it difficult to enforce content moderation policies. The empirical research samples 16 video hosting websites and 11,384 link posts on Facebook groups and pages. We apply procedures of digital and computational methods designed to analyze fake news in a scenographic way and techniques for identifying coordination of activity inauthentic. We find clone sites that manipulate press videos by adding sensationalist or false information. The operation articulates the spread of videos in an organized manner by instrumentalizing religion, entertainment, political, and news groups on Facebook. In the remainder of the paper, we discuss the implications for tackling disinformation with a focus on cross-platform interaction.
- Publication
Revista Fronteiras, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 2, p140
- ISSN
1984-8226
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.4013/fem.2021.232.10