A era das fake news: manipulação, democracia e a lei geral de proteção de dados

Abstract

The society is endowed with devices that reverberate information. There are several types of propagation that appear daily, the news is a way to information in a frightening speed, so once something has been said, it is almost impossible to have control over what was broadcast. However, the danger of receiving these immediate reports is that we have become immediate to spread them too, the source of the news is specified and even as they are notoriously false, they end up causing an air of doubt due to their immense circulation. For this reason, the present work is dedicated to addressing how the technological age interferes in people's social and political life, and especially how technology re-establishes democracy, causing some precepts on the subject to change radically. Using the deductive method, the fake news phenomenon, it’s origin, concepts and interferences in the latest changes around the world were commented on. According to Lakatos and Marcone (2003), we seek to analyze the information from a general theory until reaching a more specific one. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, which sought to understand, through bibliographic research and data collection, how Fake News changed the political scene and how they can be a problem through an adequate standard. It was possible to verify the change in the position of Internet users discourse regarding political decisions, understood in a public sphere. This behavior makes political participation extremely fragile and gives rise to the main study object of this work: fake news.