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THE POWER OF COMMUNICATION AND IT´S INFLUENCES IN OUR

DECISION MAKING

Deodorants can cause breast cancer.

This fake News started because of the fact that most part of the breast cancer
occur near of the armpit. First, we must understand that deodorants and
antiperspirants are different things. Deodorants have antiseptics that temporarily kill
bacteria preventing bad odor, already the antiperspirants have aluminum complexes
that works like sweat inhibitors (sweat that comes out of other areas of the body), and
this complex are our ‘’bad guys’’ on this fake news. A 2016 Swiss study established a
relation between aluminum and breast cancer in mice; however, any study realized in
humans proved this relation, but the analyzes continue. What we know today is these
substances can cause allergies and that ANVISA allow maximums 15% aluminum
hydrochloride on the antiperspirants composition.

ISIS set the Eiffel Tower on fire.

A surprising amount of fake news came out of France in 2016. One reported
that the iconic Eiffel Tower was on fire. In fact, a nearby fireworks truck accidentally
caught fire close to the tower. This caused the monument to be engulfed in smoke.
The facts did not stop many purveyors of fake news jumping on the images and
footage. They hyped the situation with groundless terrorist attack claims.

Covid vaccine causes monkey pox and just homosexual men are at risk
of catching the disease.
On the internet, posts shared on social networks since May, spread fake news
about monkey pox. One of the most widespread would be that the disease is caused
by anti-covid vaccines produced by Oxford/AstraZeneca, since among its components
there is a chimpanzee adenovirus, this adenovirus has been genetically modified so
that it cannot reproduce in the human body and, in addition, belongs to a different
family from the monkey pox virus. Experts insist on making it clear that there is no
relationship between the two pathogens
The disease got its name (monkey pox) because it was first detected in
monkeys, in 1957. "However, monkeys are not the hosts. Most likely, in Africa, the
continent where the virus originated, its sources are rodents," he said. Professor Flávio
Guimarães da Fonseca, president of the Brazilian Society of Virology.
Another recurring myth is "Only homosexual men are at risk of catching the
disease"
Anyone who lives or has close contact with a patient of the virus is at risk of
being infected this includes relatives, partners and healthcare professionals,
regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The president of the Sociedade de
Infectologia do Distrito Federal explains that the beginning of the transmission of the
disease coincided with major events of the LGBTQIA+ pride calendar, and the virus
found in the agglomerations the perfect environment to spread.
"This group of people, due to a circumstance, was at greater risk. It could have
been during Carnival. Many factors made the virus find a more efficient way of
transmission. This does not mean that it is related to sexual orientation", he says.

Wave of massacre in schools in São Paulo.

A new wave of fake news, starting in early April, scared parents, students, and
all regions of the country, putting the police on alert. The pattern is usually the same in
all circumstances, either student spray-paints somewhere in the school, or writes on
the classroom board: "Massacre day x, time x." Most take photos and then publish
them anonymously. After the messages reach parents or school, it causes a climate of
apprehension and those responsible calls the police.
This wave of fake news about school massacres emerged in the United States,
when groups created a message post on the social network Tik Tok. Many Americans
canceled their classes after threats and Tik Tok even released a note stating that it
works to identify fake news.
In Brazil, the most reported case occurred at the Professor Manuel Abreu State
School, in Linhares (ES). Two teenagers posted the threat to the school in WhatsApp
groups, even posting a photo of a revolver. The students gave statements at the police
station, who posted their guardians, and will speak as threats in the context of a joke.
 The Secretary of Education of the State of São Paulo, the Integrated Office of
School Security and the Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo recalled, in
investigation notes and complaints, the occurrence of violence in the school area.

Vaccine cause autism in children.

In 2008 Brazil was experiencing a strong epidemic of yellow fever, with about
1311 cases and 450 deaths at the end of the national population´s vaccine process,
and ever though the number of contagions did not reach zero for a long time because
of one main reason: the lack of demanded for vaccination.
On this period, with all the virus chaos and the demands for the vaccine
production, many fake news reverberated everywhere, what generated high confusion
on the part of the population and the expansion of a specific group, the anti-vaccine
people, who not only refused to protect against the virus adequately and recommended
by experts in the area of health, as well as spreading fake news without scientific
foundations about the origin and the reactions of vaccines.
One of the main and most absurd data of arguments that appear at this time
was that one of the vaccine’s reactions could case autism in people, in especially in
children. All this caused an uproar for most people, especially by those who did not
update themselves with true data, who began to refuse to get vaccinated, which
increased the numbers of cases and deaths by yellow fever. Until today, this group of
people continues to grow, especially with the increasing of communication.