Fake news in post-truth times. Analysis of fake news published on Facebook during political processes in Brazil and Mexico 2018.
Abstract
The present study has the purpose of characterizing the discursive patterns of the fake news published in Facebook during political processes in Brazil and Mexico during 2018. With this objective, this empirical-descriptive research systematizes the theoretical assumptions about the interrelations between journalism and digital social networks and evaluates the phenomenon of fake news and its implications in today's journalism. As well, the thesis identifies the discursive patterns in the fake news published on Facebook during those political processes. For that purpose, the research is based on the qualitative methodology, in the theoretical level of the hypermedial discourse analysis and also uses the documentary literature review, considering the fake news stories published in Facebook during the presidential campaign periods in Brazil and Mexico (2018), and which were identified as false by previously selected fact-checking sites.
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