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The Amazon on the Internet: data, networks and activism
In 2021, the dissemination of socio-environmental data about the Amazon became a challenge, while the public debate went viral on social media with strong evidence of bots acting. This was the theme of the Amazon workshop on the internet: data, networks and activism, held as part of the Brazilian Internet Forum program on the 3rd…
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Sales funnel: the strategy of Brasil Paralelo, the far-right Brazilian think tank
The far-right think tank Brasil Paralelo is known for researching and monitoring propaganda strategies and digital tactics to radicalize audiences. In collaboration with the report on the Núcleo website, Lori Regattieri explains the audiovisual producer's strategy. In May 2022, Brasil Paralelo had two CNPJs running ads with the same…
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Visibility regimes in the participatory advertising ecosystem: regulation beyond the legal
The space of digital platforms is crossed by terms of use rules and criteria not always explicit by big techs. This is the subject of the article published in Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil by Isadora Lira, a doctoral student in sociology at UFPB and a member of Intervozes. Isadora spoke with different specialists in the field about the problems…
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Thinking about the elections: Bolsonaro had more votes in the arc of deforestation
A tweet by Lori Regattieri moved social networks after the first round of the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections. This was the highlight of the article Bolsonaro had more votes in the arc of deforestation, from Mídia Ninja. When comparing the maps of the project “Atlas of the Brazilian agrarian question”, by Eduardo Paulon Girardi (UNESP) and the map…
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Disinformation goes hand in hand with the engagement business model of digital companies
“Disinformation is about manipulation and goes hand in hand with the development of company technologies, such as Facebook and Twitter, towards an engagement business model.” This is how Lori Regattieri, a ten-year researcher on fake news on digital platforms and creator of Ecomídia, explains the environment of misinformation on the internet…
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Civil society organizations discuss how to combat and contain disinformation in Brazil
Around 30 organizations, which make up the Articulation Room against Disinformation, met to take stock and outline perspectives for combating disinformation in Brazil. The dialogue was organized into four sessions: Platforms, TSE and civil society; Socio-environmental denialism and gender and racial political violence; Paths to regulation and systematization of…
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Forest fires and disinformation in Brazil: state propagandists against the climate justice movement.
Lori Regattieri presented the article “Disinformation on a Scale in Brazil: The Case of State Propagandists Against the Climate Justice Movement” at the Workshop (March 9-10, 2022) organized by the Technology and Social Change Project, at the Shorenstein Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. The event addressed the challenges of research on disinformation and sought to identify…
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