Fake News vs. Healthy Diet

• Main Author: de Vasconcelos, Catarina Mafalda Barreiro Pestana
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01-01-2019
• Subjects: Business administration; Cardiovascular disease; Fruits; Marketing; Medicine; Public health; Veganism; Vegetarianism
• ISBN: 9798380763288

Today we live in a globalized world, with no boundaries, and where we can be updated of any information by the minute. This globalization phenomenon has a lot of advantages as well as disadvantages. It is wonderful to know the news by the minute, however the easiness and swiftness real news spreads, same goes to the false news. Tools, such as search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, etc. Social Media (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) or Blogs, are turning the information sharing easier, but uncontrolled. Online it is very difficult to assess the reliability of news or information. On these lines, at present, a hotly debated and widely spread topic deals with diets and a healthier life. I mean to say, people are adopting new diets and consuming products that someone online declares they are healthier and offer added benefits. Therefore, this study seeks to understand the reliability of these new diet trends, who are these people that shared the information, and the impact of it on the society.