Video reportaje sobre las fake news en la red social facebook y su incidencia en la salud mental de un target adulto en época de pandemia: historias de vida

Abstract

Social networks and unverified content or content from unverified sources affect vulnerable social groups (adult target and with lack of knowledge of digital platforms). Such information that is received daily has an impact on the mental health of vulnerable users of the social network Facebook. Specifically, during the pandemic period, the use of the social network increased in order to stay informed and communicated in the face of isolation, which brought with it a phenomenon that needs to be analyzed and explained. In order to carry out this study, a qualitative approach is adopted, with a descriptive scope and a phenomenological design. Data collection techniques are used, among them; documentary review, in-depth interviews and content analysis, which allows to know the experiences through stories, the stories of people affected in the psychological aspect caused by fake news, aged between 50 and 65 years old. The results show that fear, depression and anxiety are the main health conditions experienced as a result of the messages disseminated on Facebook during the pandemic. The journalistic approach obtained a video report where the stories based on lived experiences are narrated, including the anecdotes of the interviewed elderly people, as well as the analysis of psychologists specialized in mental illnesses caused by the consumption of false viralized information. However, for a better understanding of the existing messages in the social network, the audiovisual collects versions of communication professionals, who emphasize the impact that can cause the publications launched in order to generate the interaction of the public, regardless of the psychological damage that can cause the same, in turn, deepens with versions of creators of this type of content who reveal what is the background and the reason to keep the content in force on the network, which in many cases the level of veracity comes hand in hand with the instantaneity of the information that is handled in social networks.