O consumo simbólico da desinformação ancorada na credibilidade jornalística: análise de elementos de legitimação do discurso nas Eleições de 2022

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the discursive strategies that refer to the attribute of credibility in pieces of disinformation that circulated in the 2022 Brazilian Elections. We will use the methodological assumptions of the case study and criticaldiscourse analysis and, as a corpus, we chose pieces of disinformation that focus on allegations of fraud in the electronic ballot boxes published on Twitter (now X) and Telegram (with circulation in other digital and networked environments) and in (supposedly) journalistic companies such as Jovem Pan, during the first and second rounds of the presidential elections. We observed the use of six different discursive strategies -some of them also used in journalism -in which the aim is to lend credibility to misleading and fabricated content.