Infoxicación durante el confinamiento obligatorio por la pandemia de COVID-19 en Quito

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out in the city of Quito on the social network Twitter, where the purpose was to analyze the evolutionary threads of disinformation causing an infoxication in professional adult users, where enormous amounts of information on COVID-19 are required, the users analyzed They were 5 professional adults who were opinion leaders in the first months of the pandemic. The analyzed accounts show the interest of the Ecuadorian community in using this platform as a means of dissemination and opinion on day-to-day issues or national and international trends, therefore, to identify all this information, a content analysis is carried out where was able to observe the context in which the message arises and develops, discovers and evidences its latent content through the social network Twitter where news, data, figures and knowledge about the coronavirus are shared, the information is complemented with interviews with professional adults who has an understanding of infoxication through social networks. The analysis shows that, at a general level, when professional adults shared different information on Twitter, which was not only focused on COVID-19, it produced an infoxication both because of the person who publishes and the person who consumes, because of the variety of information that is posted to the account without properly managing the search.