O impacto das fake news no processo eleitoral

Abstract

This paper deals with the reality of false information that presents itself in the context of the Brazilian electoral process. It is a theme that reflects the great concern of institutions in the face of technological innovations and the use of the internet as a space to promote electoral campaigns. The fake news has as a premise to deconstruct the truth and to change its perception in the understanding of the people to take advantage, being a potentially compromising illicit conduct that influences the result of the election and consequently interferes in the legitimacy of the Democratic State of Law that gives citizens the choice of their political representatives. The purpose of this dissertation through a bibliographic analysis is to verify how the spread of false news can compromise the elections and how the Superior Electoral Court is acting in the fight against fake news used as a form of negative electoral propaganda