Dissemination of fake news in cross-platform perspective: the Hydra of 2018 Brazilian presidential election

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  • Presentation type: Paper
  • Track: Session 01 - "Political Discourses and Media Manipulation"
  • Keywords: Bolsonaro; Fake News; Plataforms;
  • 1 razilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Digital Democracy, NCT-DD

Dissemination of fake news in cross-platform perspective: the Hydra of 2018 Brazilian presidential election

João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos

Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Digital Democracy, NCT-DD

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze large-scale diffusion of fake news stories about the 2018 Brazilian election from a cross-platform perspective. We adopted a digital methods approach with network analyses to deeply understand the structural interconnection among WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter accounts and public groups toward the viral information flow.

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