MEANINGS IN DISPUTE: DISCURSIVE MEMORY AND DECONSTRUCTION NARRATIVES IN FACT-CHECKING

This article aims to investigate, in the narrative sphere, the modes of activation of discursive memory (PÊCHEUX, 1999; COURTINE, 1999) in fact-checking. It is based on the understanding that disinformation is not a simple factual error, but a discursive functioning: the reactivation of meanings historically sedimented in the interdiscourse that suffer a deviation, a slippage of their historical anchor (point of drift). The question that guides us in this study is: how is discursive memory activated by the agency Aos Fatos in its work of checking disinformation — that is, which already said are reactivated and diverted — and how does checking re-signify these meanings? It is important for us to reflect and seek to understand the functioning of discursive memory in the dispute of meanings between disinformation and the verification of the facts that support its deconstruction and refutation.