Covid-19 and fake news: analysis of the veryfyed news at the website "Fact or fake"

This work analyzed the publications in the Fact or Fake section, located on the G1 page For this, 9 categories of analyzes were created: coronavirus prophylaxis and cure, vaccine, xenophobia, true videos in the false context, theory that the virus was predicted in the past, political, panic, social isolation and others From the analysis, it was concluded that 86 news items were found in a period of 60 days In addition, it is clear that although technological resources and the internet greatly facilitate access to all types of information, checking this information is increasingly necessary This situation further reinforces the importance of the journalist and the role of the Gatekeeper