Agência Lupa e o Projeto Truco: análise dos sentidos produzidos pelas agências de checagens sobre candidatos à presidência nas eleições de 2018

Abstract

This research analyzes the meanings produced by the Agência Lupa and the Projeto Truco (Agência Pública) in the checks on the Brazilian presidential candidates Ciro Gomes and Jair Bolsonaro during the 2018 elections. The work of the check agencies is inserted in a context of mediation, with greater production and circulation of information - including false - and polarization of political discourse. Such a scenario impacts the productive routine of the news media, thus constituting the conditions for the production of meanings about every presidential candidate. In order to do so, we analyzed eight checks published in 2018, using the theoretical-methodological basis of the French Speech Analysis, in order to understand the similarities and differences of sense production of the candidates´s speeches, in the checks carried out by the two agencies. It was verified that Agência Lupa attributes more false labels to Bolsonaro, whereas for Ciro Gomes the label exaggerated was repeated many times. Projeto Truco attributed more false labels to both Ciro Gomes and Bolsonaro. In the Projeto Truco, the statements of Ciro point to its errors and exaggerations, accompanied by photos in which the candidate is valued; while the senses built on the Bolsonaro show the ideological position of the candidate about the issue of armament. Concerning to Agência Lupa, the checks on the Ciro are less rigid, using questions in the construction of the titles; in relation to Bolsonaro, Agência Lupa is more emphatic in evidencing its errors.