O Discurso Desinformativo sobre a Cura do COVID-19 no Twitter

Estudo de caso

Authors

  • Raquel Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Felipe Soares Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2127

Keywords:

misinformation, twitter, coronavirus, discourse

Abstract

This paper analyzes how the circulation of disinformation regarding a possible “cure” for coronavirus on Brazilian Twitter took place in a period of ten days in March 2020. Our focus is the discussion of  (1) how discourses related to disinformation about alleged cures were spread, (2) the different types of disinformation discourse and their prevalence and (3) the discursive disputes against other discourses that deny this disinformation. Through a mixed methods study, using both content analysis and social network analysis of 57.295 tweets, we observed: (1) the alignment of the disinformation discourse with the political discourse of support of the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, mostly by the actions of opinion leaders aligned with his support base; (2) the growth of disinformation circulation based on the president's speeches; (3) the circulation of misleading framing as the key disinformation strategy, seeking to connect the “cure” discourse with disinformation.

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Author Biographies

Raquel, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Doutora pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora e pesquisadora do Centro de Letras e Comunicação Universidade Federal de Pelotas e do Programa de Pós Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Coordenadora do MIDIARS.

Felipe Soares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Doutorando pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Pesquisador do MIDIARS.

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27-07-2021

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Raquel, & Soares, F. (2021). O Discurso Desinformativo sobre a Cura do COVID-19 no Twitter: Estudo de caso. E-Compós, 24. https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2127

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