Fake news: análise jurídica eleitoral para consolidação da democracia

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to studies on “fake news” in the era of digital globalization, and the impacts it produces on society, as well as on the democratic electoral process. Therefore, the deductive research method was applied using the exploratory procedure, all to reveal the repercussions of "fake news" in the context of access to information and privacy, which are essential to maintain an environment of informational health in elections, even the means of propagation and the tools to combat the spread of false news. Aiming to clarify the potential of "fake news", as mechanisms of disinformation, which compromise the exercise of citizenship and mislead voters, it is concluded that the Electoral Justice must adapt technically to the exponential dissemination of false news, and to the society will be responsible for debating measures to raise awareness of the ethical use of information.