Online Disinformation in BrazilA Typology of Discursive Action of Harmful Political Content on WhatsApp and Facebook

Resumo

This article investigates harmful political content in public WhatsApp and Facebook groups of the radical Right in Brazil. Considering harmful political content as that which generates direct damage to the quality, reasonableness, and plurality of public discussion, we investigate the enunciative aspects of four specific types of discursive action (uncivil, conspiratorial, hateful, and dangerous) and the non-enunciative aspects used for harmful types of communication and interaction. The database consists of 3,503,540 messages propagated in 1,676 public groups during the electoral process. Through a quantitative approach to a sample of 2,201 unique messages, we found, among other things, that harmful content was more present on Facebook than on WhatsApp; messages about the elections were associated with uncivil speech; uncivil speech was usually associated with dangerous speech and opposed to conspiratorial speech. The results allow for more nuanced reflections on the actions and strategy of the Far Right in the digital public debate.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2024

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/37895

Temas

Tecnologia

Palavras-chave

Desinformação onlineComunicação digitalCiência políticaCiências sociaisComunicaçãoTecnologia