Since the advent of social media, there has been a shift in both the production and consumption of news. In 2020, around 2.95 billion people were using social media worldwide. A tidal wave of activity on social media was triggered in tandem with the wide spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The vast majority of platforms were used to inform people about relevant news, suggestions, and preventative actions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), uncontrolled propaganda and conspiracy theories are spreading at a rate greater than that of the COVID-19 outbreak. This has resulted in an infodemic, leading to psychological tension, inaccurate medical recommendations, and economic disruption. The main aim of the present research is to find the depiction of fake news and the impact that this phenomenon has had on the residents of Jaipur city. The platform of this study is to find the many types of fake news as well as the motivations behind those who spread misinformation by doing a content analysis of four key social media platforms. This study examined 130 of Jaipur’s most popular fake news stories on social media. Data is collected from the city of Jaipur using the four most popular social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and WhatsApp. There are four different categories of fake news topics that these topics may distinguish: COVID19 treatment, hospitals, remedies, and available treatments. There is a widespread misunderstanding about how hospitals handle COVID-19, accounting for 34.62 percent of all false news stories. Text, photos, audio, and videos are the four categories used to define the many kinds of content. The percentage of content recorded as being in the type of text accounts for the high ratio. The goals behind fake news may be broken down into three primary categories: the creation of hype, the promotion of certain medicines; propaganda against the government; and propaganda directed against hospitals and medical doctors. Even though instances of fake news are not fairly distributed and regularly alter over time, a gradual decrease in the number of daily incidents can be seen moving closer and closer to the conclusion.

COVID-19, Fake News, Propaganda, Disinformation, Misinformation, Social Media, Jaipur City.