Mídias sociais e fake news: a pandemia de Covid-19 no contexto brasileiro

• Autor(a) principal: Torquato, Carina de Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/58113
• topic: Mídia e disseminação de fake news na pandemia; Fake news na pandemia; Agências de fact-checking e pandemia

This paper presents the social media's role on fake news spread during the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazil, and the librarian's relevance on fake news restraint. It discuss the concepts of media, social medias, fake news and critical competence, associating them to the importance of fact-checking agencies. Using a qualitative method exploratory research, a questionnaire of open and closed questions was elaborated, aiming to understand the workings of the media and the circulation of information about the pandemic on the period between march and june 2020. Through discourse analysis, it is pointed out that the media had a great role on Brazilian lives during the start of the pandemic which demonstrates its importance on the fight against fake news.