Studies in cultural history. In short, the fake news phenomenon in the COVID pandemic is portrayed here as the convergence of various vices that materialize as misinformation, in the communicative vacuity of the moments in which we are obliged to address each other to share our worldviews. In the current scenario, worldviews are reaffirmed within identity hubs, grouped in polarized consensuses concerning fears, hates, prejudices, and repressed pretensions. Quem Matou Garrett Phillips? Who Killed Garrett Phillips?
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