The role of Egyptian web pages in refuting rumors in times of crisis

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer in the Journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication - Sinai University “Al-Qantara”

Abstract

false news through many pages of social networking sites, so the study seeks to monitor and analyze the methodology of some pages in dealing with rumors and fake news, and how this media interaction contributes to creating a societal public opinion on a specific issue, whether by rejection or acceptance. Or division, especially in times of crisis, by focusing on the global crisis, "the need for Corona and the political crises of the Egyptian state, based on the theories of social responsibility and the approach to systems analysis, And the survey and comparative methodologies, and the researchers used the strategic analysis tool and the content analysis tool on a sample of different pages, ) a support and decision-making page “daem w etkhaz el karar” - Ikhwan Online – Da begd- Ana asef ya rayis " during the period from January 2022 to June 2022, and a questionnaire form for an intentional sample of the audience consisting 100 items, and the researcher reached a support and decision-making page(daem w etkhaz el karar) from the most published pages with a rate of 77.8% due to the abundance and diversity of topics, most of the rumors are about the political and economic field, and they differ according to the crisis, where during the Corona crisis, health and environmental rumors increased, all pages of the study sample do not target rumors by 100% Except for this page, Da begd , it is the most interested and completely specialized in responding to rumors
The most prominent mechanisms for dealing with rumors are the news format with a rate of 41.8%. The pages also depend mainly on pictures as interactive material, while the audience’s answers agreed with the percentages of analysis regarding the increase in political and economic rumors. %, and in third place was “the ease of creating fake pages” with a rate of 16%, and the “absence of social responsibility among users of social networking sites” came with a rate of 11.7%.
 

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