Mídias Sociais E Fake News: Desinformação Como Ferramenta Antidemocrática No Governo Trump

Moraes, Tainá Felippe de; Nobre, Fábio Rodrigo Ferreira

doi:10.29327/252935.13.1-5

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“…The world has been shrunk by electronic communication and more efficient means of transportation; borders are overcome with less effort and the exchange of ideas, goods, and the migration of people has become easier. This permeability, in turn, has brought new challenges, as people are exposed to a large amount of information; much of it, is true and useful; part of it is inadequate and harmless; another part is wrong and anodyne; and some, however, is false and carries with it the possibility of generating harmful repercussions, such as the invasion of the US Congress (Moraes and Nobre, 2022) and the Iraq War in 2003 (Hein, 2018).…”

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Censorship: A Reaction to Disinformation on the World Wide Web

Braga,

Pinto,

Muriel-Torrado

et al. 2024

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The Internet and the popularization of smartphones in the 21st century have given instantaneity to information. By these same digital means –imbued with the power to influence politics, the market, culture, and health– disinformation blossoms. Censorship, understood as the suppression of content and/or suspension of users on social media, has been used as one way to combat disinformation on the Web. This drive to sanitize digital networks carries inherent risks. In the context of ‘Infodemics,’ investment in user’s media education should be encouraged. As methodology, the phenomenon of disinformation on the Web and the efforts to curb it were researched in both scientific literature and in Brazilian legislation. To combat disinformation, the users’ education (in a sense of enabling them to filter, understand, and interpret the information that they gather) should be the main goal, as entrusting this task to third parties could bring undesirable side effects. Meanwhile, platforms, traditional media, and governments pose as ‘Guardians of the Truth.’ The social impacts of disinformation and of the efforts to suppress false content on the Web are discoursed in this paper through usage of MapReduce Text Mining. The paper concludes that disinformation takes on many connotations –from humorous appeal to manipulation–. As long as the users’ informational competence has not been developed, both the platforms as well as governments must act to minimize the undesirable effects of this phenomenon.

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confidence: 99%