Abstract:

With the completion of the production of the COVID-19 vaccines and the beginning of the vaccination process, the news content that translates the correct information in the media, which does not reflect much of the truth about the nature of the vaccines and the potential side effects, and the news content that distorts, has come into circulation both in the traditional and digital media. In the study conducted before the process of introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine in Turkey, the objective is to determine the levels of awareness about the news content of individuals about the vaccine and to track, confirm the relevant news; to show the tendencies to trust the relevant news, to pay attention. For this purpose, a field research based on the imaginary method was carried out through the question form. The study found that individuals did not find the vaccine news in the media reliable and sufficiently informative, that they thought there was too much false news content on social media, that the Minister of Health observed the vaccine news from different sources and that the vaccine discussions in the media did not affect their attitude to the vaccine COVID-19.