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How disinformation kills: philosophical challenges in the post-Covid society
1Departamento de Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, Área de Filosofía, Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras, Universidad de Córdoba, Plaza del Cardenal Salazar 3., 14071, Córdoba, Spain. mpalomo1@uco.es.
Abstract:
The paper argues that the large extent of disinformation has increased the number of deaths from coronavirus due to the proliferation of hoaxes spread via digital tools and media. It is noted that this problem could worsen in the post-COVID society and as such should be understood as having significant political import. Moreover, the phenomenon of disinformation has raised ethical questions around how to actively prevent deaths indirectly caused by hoaxes, as well as epistemological questions around maintaining criteria of truthfulness.
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