O artigo identifica como características do comportamento autoritário sistematizadas por Levitsky e Ziblatt (2018) se revelam em declarações do presidente do Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, verificadas pelo site de fact-checking Aos Fatos. A partir de uma análise de conteúdo, seguida de análise de sentidos das declarações de Bolsonaro no Twitter sobre a pandemia de Covid-19, o estudo permite tensionar autoritarismo e desinformação no discurso do presidente em meio à crise sanitária, bem como os desafios que isso representa para o fact-checking, o exercício do jornalismo e a democracia no contexto brasileiro
The paper discusses limits and possibilities of fact-checking as a social practice to improve democracy in the 21th century. In base on results of participation research developed in the Truco nos Estados project, from Agência Pública, during the Brazilian elections 2018, the text presents inferences about fact-checking context and impact to promote a democratic agenda having as theorical perspective the structural changes of journalism. It can be concluded that there is space to fact-checking develope as a journalistic practice to improve democracy, but its consolidation depends of a psicocognitive learning shared by public agentes and citizens.
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