Desinformação, pós-verdade e fact-checking: proposição de modelo direcionado à informação para saúde

Abstract

It i s considered that the phenomenon of disinformation is increasingly present i n the cyberspace environment, a fact that calls attention to be investigated. In this sense, the guiding question of the research is: how fact-checking can enable informational subjects to access, appropriate and make use of health information in their daily lives in order to minimize the misinformation existing in digital informational environments, considering the phenomenon of the post-truth? Thus, the general objective of this research is to understand how the practice of fact-checking can enable the access, appropriation and use of health information by informational subjects in order to minimize the existing misinformation in digital informational environments, involving aspects relating to post-truth. In order to elucidate the problem that involves the object of study in question, the Grounded Theory in Constructivist Data, by Charmaz (2009) was chosen as the methodology . The empirical field of the study was five Brazilian checking agencies (Agência Lupa, Aos Fatos, Projeto Comprova, E-Farsas and Boatos.org). Open interviews were used as a technique for data collection, conducted through Zoom, which were then analyzed and discussed through the Discourse of the Collective Subject. The following results were achieved: understanding of the peculiarities related to health information, reflecting on its form of access, appropriation and use in digital media; assimilation about the existing relationships between the concepts of disinformation, truth and post-truth; presentation of the categories that should be adopted to build a fact-checking model aimed at accessing, appropriating and using information in the health context; construction of the fact-checking model aimed at accessing, appropriating and using information in the health context; and discussion on how the practice of fact-checking can enable the access, appropriation and use of health information by informational subjects in order to minimize the misinformation that exists in digital informational environments.