Memetics of Deception: Spreading Local Meme Hoaxes during COVID-19 1st Year

The central thesis of this paper is that memetic practices can be crucial to understanding deception at present when hoaxes have increased globally due to COVID-19. Therefore, we employ existing memetic theory to describe the qualities and characteristics of meme hoaxes in terms of the way they are...

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Published in:	Future Internet
Main Authors:	Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz, Cande Sánchez-Olmos, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí, Estela Saquete-Boro
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Subjects:	fake news memetics COVID-19 hoaxes glocal misinformation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/6/152

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