Disinformation and Its Negative Impact in the Changing World of Mass Media (Specifically Focused on the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic)

Abstract

Disinformation in the online world has been recently spreading across the world, especially in relation to major global issues (the COVID-19 pandemic, migration, vaccination, elections, etc.) The recent COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by disinformation, affecting the lives of millions across the world. In this text, we are trying to describe which COVID-19 related disinformation have spread intensively within the Czech Republic in the Czech language, what they are focused on and which ones are most frequently encountered among the population.