Strategies for Transparency and Journalistic Authority in Louis Theroux: Inside the Machosphere

The platformization of communication has produced impacts that go beyond the circulation of information, affecting the very processes of construction and validation of truth. In this context, an epistemic crisis is observed marked by the expansion of disinformation, hate speech, and the weakening of journalistic credibility. In response to this scenario, some productions have resorted to transparency strategies as a way to reaffirm the legitimacy of journalistic work. Considering that the machosphere constitutes one of the phenomena that emerge from this informational ecosystem, and that the documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Machosphere incorporates the journalist's performance as a central element of the narrative, this article seeks to understand how this production mobilizes transparency strategies in the approach to misogynistic discourses in radicalized digital ecosystems.