International Journal of Advance Science and Technology Vol. 29, No. 10S, (2020), pp. 7797-7804 7797 ISSN: 2005-4238 IJAST Copyright ⓒ 2020 SERSC Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation About Covid-19: A Content Study of Closed-Cross Platform Messaging Using Whatsapp Amit Verma 1 , Maninder Kumar Singh 2 , Dr. Aditi Pareek 3 Abstract The whole world and India are a complete lockdown due to coronavirus, which we also have known as “Covid-19”. People are getting scared of print media because there is a fear among people that this virus spreads from the newspaper too. Subsequently, electronic media, it is social media, which is the most powerful medium of information in society. Nevertheless, it spreads more misinformation and is more frightening than the disease among people. In recent times, WhatsApp messenger has begun as an additional short message service in emerging nations. This one consists of a range of functions like the live location of a user, documents, audiovisual content, and text messages globally. Nowadays, whole things are going digitally from laypeople to an elite class is using WhatsApp so much that they do not use any other medium. Because it is an instant messaging service and we simply come to know about Information, Misinformation, and disinformation of the Coronavirus through WhatsApp. The purpose of doing this study is to content analysis of all the incoming and status messages on WhatsApp and turns it into junk middle fake content after the actuality of COVID-19, and the educated people of the society forward it and give rise to new violence in the community. The purpose of doing this study is to analyze the content of the incoming and status messages on WhatsApp and turn it into junk middle fake content after the actual. Keywords: Social Media, WhatsApp, Coronavirus, health communication, Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation. 1. INTRODUCTION A. History of WhatsApp In the year 2009, WhatsApp established by Brian Anton and Ian Koom. It is a free text messaging mobile app for android and ios platforms. WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone- and web-based instant message application that allows users to share info by a diversity of digitally content, comprising text, photo, video, and audio messages. Statistics show that India has the highest 400 million WhatsApp users. If seen in August 2012, WhatsApp is sending 10 billion messages daily. Which were 1 billion in October last year and 2 billion in April 2012, it reached 10 billion today. On June 13, 2013, WhatsApp released that 27 billion messages exchanged daily. On April 22, 2014, it had 500 million active users every month and every day shared 700 million photos and 100 million videos. Going on August 24, 2014, Koum made an official announcement on Twitter and said that WhatsApp has 600 million active members all over the world. After this, 25 million or 833,000 new active members are joining daily. In May 2017, it observed that 340 million minutes of video calls made per day. There were 1.2 billion users worldwide in February 2017, and the number increased to 1.5 billion at the end of the 2017 year. In January 2020, 5 billion users downloaded on the Google Play Store platform and set a new record by creating a record in the second non-Google application. According to the latest data of February 2020, currently, WhatsApp has reached 2 billion users all over the world. 1 2 3 Research Fellow, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Manipal University, Jaipur. Research Scholar,Department of Journalism & Mass Communication Manipal University, Jaipur. Assistant Professor IIS (deemed to be) University