An infodemic of disinformation regarding COVID-19 in Ukraine
An infodemic of disinformation regarding COVID-19 in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the phenomenon of infodemic in terms of disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic that shaped the Ukrainian infosphere in the years 2020-2022. The considerations contained in the text focus mainly on the specific features of the issue, and are an attempt to answer the question of how much disinformation regarding COVID-19 in Ukraine differed from analogous trends shaping the internal situation and the infosphere in other countries around the world. Thearticle presents a working thesis that the covid infodemic in Ukraine had, first of all, a clear external provenance (largely a single-source), as well as a highly adaptive nature, as a function and elementof a wider disinformation campaign carried out by the Russian Federation towards Ukraine and its inhabitants. The analysis presented made it possible to identify the main elements characteristic of the disinformation infodemic in Ukraine and confirm the dependence of the phenomenon analysed on anexternal factor, that is the influence of the Russian Federation.

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