Covid-19 Social Media Infodemic Literacy

Abstract

Corona Virus is an outbreak of virus affecting people around the world. News about the virus outbreak has surfaced on social media. It’s become an infodemic. A large of inaccurate information or misleading information appear in the digital world. Some are authentic, fake news, and disinformation. Confusing people may have risky behaviour to health, including information that resulted in a distrust of the work of public health organizations that affected to handle the epidemic situation. In Thailand, it was affected by the spread of the news, which can find misinformation or distorted information appearing on social media and shared by the ignorant. The objective of this article is hoe to deal with the infodemic on social media. Therefore, the receivers about Covid-19 from social media should have media literacy skills. The creation of media literacy for people in society requires cooperation from many sectors such as relevant government sections, families, educational institutions that need to educate people on social media literacy. People in public can cope with the spread of information and have the skill to receive various information from social media.