Its source is unknown and its goals are known, destabilization and shaking the people's confidence in its government and its role in facing crises, a fact confirmed by the Corona crisis, which some exploited to spread rumors through social media platforms that have become accessible to everyone and a quick alternative to satellite channels. Users of the information without verifying its source or authenticity, so social media rumors remain wars behind the keyboard.
How can you recognize and confront them?
We are facing many rumors recently, especially related to the drugs used in the treatment of Corona, so we find some social media pages that put a fake prescription that is shared among thousands of users, which causes an increase in the demand for it in pharmacies, and a crisis occurs in some medicines, so it is necessary to rely on the official sources affiliated To the Ministry of Health, to know the therapeutic protocols and not to be drawn into the rumors circulating by the social media users.
The biggest rumor that caused me to panic was the publication of a forged picture of the number of infected cases before the official statement of the Ministry of Health was issued, with double numbers of correct numbers, which spread like wildfire in a few minutes, which prompted me to ask who benefits from spreading panic among people and spreading rumors? Therefore, I no longer trust social media in general, especially with regard to the Corona pandemic, and I went through search engines to the official websites of the state, as we are witnessing an era of extreme transparency.
Personal whims
"Everyone is taking advantage of the crisis." There is no doubt that in every residential area there are those who spread rumors that some people have contracted the disease without making sure of that only because he heard from the "supermarket" seller that such a region has huge numbers of infected people and no one finds information from a reliable source, so I discovered by chance that the vegetable seller In my residential area, through a false personal account, it was published that the prices of vegetables and fruits had risen due to their shortage in the market, and this did not happen as all products are present and available, and this is what the Minister of Agriculture and the Peasants Syndicate stated, and they confirmed that we have an abundance of vegetables, fruits and all basic commodities.
Rumors are behind the creation of crises and there are those who use rumors to achieve special purposes. For example, we find masks are now sold on social media as if they are ordinary goods, although they are available in state outlets at lower prices and higher quality, but due to the presence of a rumor of their shortage in the market always, we find many who buy large quantities and store them despite The state has factories working to provide masks, but this is a social media tax and there is no control over it.
We face rumors everywhere on the Internet, at home and among neighbors, but even home and market rumors are based on social media sites, for example a friend sent me a number and told me that he would provide me a hospital bed in case I got infected or one of my family members with the Corona virus, which surprised me. And it made me wonder: How will they provide me with a bed in a hospital, and I have no information on more than one number on a picture spread everywhere?
mutual trust
Trust between the national media and the people is the basis, and the state must provide information to the media in order to be able to spread the facts and refute the rumors. Therefore, I see that rumors are the product of the gap between the media and the state’s specialized agencies, and “social media” is penetrated by the hostile media and the enemies of the homeland who publish All that they desire is to penetrate the ranks of the masses and spread panic and frustration among them, but undermine their confidence in their official sources, which is one of the soft weapons, and some newspapers and yellow websites that seek only to achieve the highest viewing rates contribute to this, and sometimes those sites are their source and not the other way around. Global sites that have a different political orientation and affiliation and publish information that harms some countries and support others, so the state must create an organized media that has fast information in a way that reaches everyone in a simple and easy way, but it carries the full truth, a media that has the freedom that is similar to social media but supports the state and carries professional Required.
psychological reasons
The presence of incomplete awareness on "social media" is the real crisis, and there are people who only receive information and contribute to spreading it without awareness or review because of their suffering an intellectual vacuum that makes them enter social networking sites as an empty container that craves any information to fill only, but the blocker for these Those who have complete awareness and clear visions that seek to take information from its correct official source, and this personality is characterized by a critical mind that makes it receive only the information with pillars without neglecting the culture of society and the family.
