2022 Elections, disinformation, and attacks on the electoral system: repercussions of the digital public debate in the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections

• Autor(a) principal: Grassi, Amaro
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ruediger, Marco Aurelio, Sabbatini, Leticia, Contente, Renato, Carvalho, Mariana, Piaia, Victor, Almeida, Sabrina, Dienstbach, Dalby, Cordeiro, Maria Sirleidy, Barbosa, Polyana, Silva, Lucas Roberto da, Tomaz, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/34799
• topic: Presidential Elections; Digital Democracy; Disinformation; Ciência política; Ciências sociais; Tecnologia; Sistema eleitoral – Brasil - 2022; Eleições – Brasil – 2022; Democracia – Brasil; Movimentos sociais – Brasil; Mídia social – Aspectos políticos

This report provides an overview of the public debate regarding the 2022 presidential election, focusing on the circulation of disinformation and the anti-democratic mobilizations that directly questioned the legitimacy of the electoral process. The information contained herein originates from systematic, multi-platform analyses conducted by the School of Communication, Media and Information at FGV between August 29, 2022 and January 8, 2023, focusing on the debate regarding the institutions and authorities associated with the Electoral Court and on political key players in the debate about democracy. The investigation looked at the different digital articulations seeking to either strengthen or deliberately weaken democracy. This compilation encompassed analyses related to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Telegram, providing a plural and diverse view regarding the debate about the Electoral Court and the anti-democratic articulations in the digital context.