Fake news and Covid-19: The attempt to guide public debate during the Pandemia CPI

The work of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) opened in 2021 by the Brazilian Senate to investigate the government's handling of the fight against the pandemic had great repercussion in the press and in society. During this period, a dispute over the public debate agenda was underwa...

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Autor: Alves Silveira, Fábio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)
Repositorio:Revista Culturas Midiáticas (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufpb.br:article/63825
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/cm/article/view/63825
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fake news
Journalism
Pandemic CPI
Covid-19
Noticias falsas
Periodismo
IPC pandemia
Jornalismo
CPI da Pandemia
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Sumario:The work of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) opened in 2021 by the Brazilian Senate to investigate the government's handling of the fight against the pandemic had great repercussion in the press and in society. During this period, a dispute over the public debate agenda was underway, in addition to official pronouncements. This other dispute had as a tool the elaboration and propagation of fake news. In this article we analyze the fake news broadcast during the CPI da Pandemia from the work of checking done by the agencies Lupa and Fato or Fake. We conclude that fake news was used on a large scale and in a systematic way to try to control the public debate agenda and justify government measures. To account for this analysis, we use the concept of factual truth in Hannah Arendt and the classification of fake news proposed by Eugênio Bucci.