Social media, disinformation, and regulation of the electoral process: a study based on 2018 Brazilian election experience
There is global concern about the impact that ‘fake news’ has on democratic decision-making processes. Democratic decision-making needs to be well informed and voters need a minimum of confidence in the information they receive about competitors. The Internet has increased the availability of inform...
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There is global concern about the impact that ‘fake news’ has on democratic decision-making processes. Democratic decision-making needs to be well informed and voters need a minimum of confidence in the information they receive about competitors. The Internet has increased the availability of information, but has allowed new ways of manipulating it to emerge. In recent electoral experiences, social media has increased the impact of misinformation on democracy. These experiences have shown us that Internet governance during the election campaign is an urgent issue. A laissez-faire approach to the electoral process is a threat to democracy because it allows all kinds of cheating. Institutions responsible for ensuring the integrity of elections need to try democratic resources to constrain competitors to behave responsibly. It is important to know the concrete experience of a country that has suffered the attack of disinformation campaigns during an election period, studying the action of the body responsible for organizing this process. This article discusses the guarantee of the electoral process based on the case study of the 2018 Brazilian election.
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dialnet-ar-18-ART00014236882020-12-17Social media, disinformation, and regulation of the electoral process: a study based on 2018 Brazilian election experienceSantos, Gustavo Ferreiraconstitutional lawsocial mediainternet governancemedia regulationdemocracyelectoral processredes sociaisgovernança da internetregulamentação dos meios de comunicaçãodemocraciaprocesso eleitoraThere is global concern about the impact that ‘fake news’ has on democratic decision-making processes. Democratic decision-making needs to be well informed and voters need a minimum of confidence in the information they receive about competitors. The Internet has increased the availability of information, but has allowed new ways of manipulating it to emerge. In recent electoral experiences, social media has increased the impact of misinformation on democracy. These experiences have shown us that Internet governance during the election campaign is an urgent issue. A laissez-faire approach to the electoral process is a threat to democracy because it allows all kinds of cheating. Institutions responsible for ensuring the integrity of elections need to try democratic resources to constrain competitors to behave responsibly. It is important to know the concrete experience of a country that has suffered the attack of disinformation campaigns during an election period, studying the action of the body responsible for organizing this process. This article discusses the guarantee of the electoral process based on the case study of the 2018 Brazilian election.Existe uma preocupação mundial com o impacto que as “fake news” têm nos processos democráticos de tomada de decisão. A decisão democrática precisa ser bem informada e os eleitores precisam de um mínimo de confiança em rela-ção às informações que recebem sobre os concorrentes. A internet aumentou a disponibilidade de informações, mas permitiu o surgimento de novas maneiras de manipulá--las. Nas recentes experiências eleitorais, as mídias sociais aumentaram o impacto da desinformação na democra-cia. Essas experiências nos mostraram que a governança da Internet durante a campanha eleitoral é uma questão urgente. Uma abordagem de laissez-faire no processo elei-toral é uma ameaça à democracia porque permite todos os tipos de trapaça. As instituições responsáveis por garantir a integridade das eleições precisam tentar recursos demo-cráticos para constranger os concorrentes a adotarem u comportamento responsável. É importante conhecer a ex-periência concreta de um país que sofreu o ataque de cam-panhas de desinformação em período eleitoral, estudando a ação do órgão responsável pela organização desse pro-cesso. Este artigo discute a garantia do processo eleitoral com base no estudo de caso da eleição brasileira de 2018.2020text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7680838(Revista) ISSN 2359-5639Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, ISSN 2359-5639, Vol. 7, Nº. 2, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: maio/agosto), pags. 429-449engLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI
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