Desinformação, desinfodemia e letramento midiático e informacional – um estudo do processo estruturado no Brasil sob o governo Jair Bolsonaro e as formas de enfrentamento

Abstract

Abstract: The proposal of this research is to verify how disinfodemic process was consolidated in Brazil from systematic dissemination of fake news and misinformation that found support in federal public instances. Disinfodemic is a pandemic of disinformation about Covid-19, according to a study released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In this sense, we aim at a systematization of the disinformation process in Brazil in times of pandemic from the assumption that such process reverberates in behaviors of the population in general, behaviors that disregard or do not respect medical and technical recommendations and questioning factors of contagion and treatment of COVID, which can be observed preliminarily from the repeated journalistic articles that show the population in the streets of major cities without the proper care of prevention in relation, for example, to the use of masks. From this data survey and subsequent analysis, we intend to propose a dialogue based on media and information literacy tools and regularly create content that can help to promote a more participatory media culture and a better understanding of the disinformation processes, which contributes to a more effective prevention of COVID-19 in Brazil. The situation of disinformation and consequent disinfodemic is established by the systematic dissemination of false scientific news – such as the dissemination of known incorrect research on the use of certain drugs, for example – by agencies and secretariats of the federal government structure, contrary to scientific precepts established by the World Health Organization.