Alimardani Mahsa, Elswah Mona
University of Oxford, UK.
Soc Media Soc. 2020 Jul 30;6(3):2056305120948251. doi: 10.1177/2056305120948251. eCollection 2020 Jul.
During the coronavirus pandemic, religious misinformation has been found on social media platforms causing fear, confusion, and polluting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's online sphere. Exploring cases of religious clickbait in the form of false hadiths and viral religious advice from religious figures entrenched in the MENA's political elite, this essay discusses how new dynamics for religion in the age of the Internet are contributing to a uniquely regional and religious form of misinformation. This essay looks at how the phenomenon of religious misinformation is a defining characteristic of the MENA's online sphere, becoming even more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic.
在新冠疫情期间，社交媒体平台上出现了宗教错误信息，引发了恐惧和混乱，污染了中东和北非（MENA）地区的网络空间。本文通过探究以虚假圣训形式出现的宗教标题党案例以及来自中东和北非政治精英阶层宗教人物的热门宗教建议，探讨了互联网时代宗教的新动态如何导致一种独特的地区性和宗教性错误信息形式。本文审视了宗教错误信息现象如何成为中东和北非网络空间的一个决定性特征，在新冠疫情期间变得更加严重。
