Covid-19 Pandemisi Döneminde Post-Truth Agnotolojisi ve Sağlık İletişimi

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic, a type of flu that started in Wuhan City, China in 2019, has affected the whole world. The panic environment created by the Covid-19 pandemic, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and spreads faster than existing flu types, also affects the production of fake news. The instantaneous and user-interactive structure of social networks that intersect with neoliberal policies, free from time and space constraints, endangers all humanity by causing the rapid spread of fake news about the epidemic. In this study, it is argued that the lies and fake news produced in the field of health during the Covid-19 pandemic have increased their credibility by turning into 'reasonable doubt' as a result of their relationship with neoliberalism, and this assumption is based on the concepts of post-truth, biopolitics, neoliberal lie, agnotology and the concepts that these concepts feed on. It is planned to be discussed within the framework of theoretical literature. The main purpose of the study is to demonstrate that the environment of uncertainty caused by fake news about health creates a type of ignorance that is deliberately and strategically produced in line with political and commercial interests. Thus, the responsibilities of capital and states in times of crisis are rendered invisible. In this context, this study, which tries to reveal the traces of deliberately and strategically produced ignorance by establishing the ties between post-truth agnotology and infodemic, will analyze the fake news produced in the field of health during the Covid-19 epidemic and published on the Teyit.org verification platform, the subject of which is the epidemic. Within the scope of the study, successful examples and opportunities in the field of health communication will be discussed in order to combat the ignorance created in the environment of reasonable suspicion arising from fake news.