Information disorders: analysis of statements by Jair Bolsonaro against covid-19 vaccination

• Autor(a) principal: Mota, Alice Agnes Spíndola
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Pimentel, Sidiany Mendes, Oliveira, Albertina Vieira de Melo Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/3513
• topic: Public opinion; Desinformation; Vaccination hesitation; Covid-19; Public health; Opinión pública; Desinformación; Covid-19; Salud pública; Vacilación a la vacunación; Opinião pública; Saúde coletiva; Desinformação; Hesitação vacinal; Covid-19

Using the concepts of “informational disorder” proposed by Claire Wardle and Hossein Derakhshan, this paper observes the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy and the public opinion towards the CoronaVac vaccine against covid-19, from the analysis of public speeches by President Jair Bolsonaro about this immunizer produced by Instituto Butantan in partnership with the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac. The speeches in question were delivered in the period from July 2020 to January 2021. Through a qualitative approach research, with exploratory and descriptive purposes, the work analyzed the content of ten pronouncements of the president about vaccines in the context of the first year of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil and observed informational disorders of the following types: bad information (17.6%), incorrect information (47.1%) and misinformation (35.3%) in all speeches. The propagated informational disorders contributed to feelings of distrust and collective postures of vaccine hesitancy related to covid-19, especially in relation to CoronaVac.