Facebook como canal de desinformação

Abstract

The Internet has brought many changes to society among them the immediacy of communication and information, which has completely changed a way we relate and inform ourselves. The Internet has made information more accessible, however this means that there is no intermediary between the user and an information, leaving up to the user's standards to identify a veracity of the information found. In different contexts it is possible to verify that several fake news are being disseminated on the Internet in order to influence the decision making. Which leads to the questioning of this research: Are Facebook users able to perceive what is misinformation? This research had the objective of work the disinformation via social networks, through the creation of a Facebook page disseminating in acontrolled way fake news. A quantitative-qualitative approach was used to analyze the data obtained. Twelve news items were released with a poll: was this information helpful, during a period of one month, with a 2 to 3 day interval between them, using statistical analyzes of mean and correlation on the collection of automated data and analysis of the discourse for the comments that were left in the publications. As a result of this research only 14% of users responded negatively to the poll and through discourse analysis it was noticed that only 24% of users noticed the problem with the false news. Coming to confirm that few Facebook users can identify false information.