“Check facts and disproving rumors”: fake news and journalistic discourse in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Dela Silva, Silmara
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fórum Linguístico
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/72801

In this paper, we turn to the functioning of the discourse on journalism and its practice in Brazil, directing our attention to fact checking services, which started to gain space and circulate more intensely in the mainstream media in 2018. From the theoretical-methodological perspective of discourse analysis, which takes discourse as an effect of meanings resulting from the inscription of language in history, we constituted our corpus of analysis, focusing on blogs: Estadão Verifica (“Estadão verifies”), launched in June 2018, by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo; and É isso mesmo? (“Is that right?”), launched in March 2017, by the O Globo group. Faced with statements about these checking services, as well as the discourses in circulation on their digital pages, we propose a theoretical-analytical reflection on journalistic practice and the construction of events in the current Brazilian socio-historical context