O impacto das fake news na sociedade em rede

Abstract

The Information Communication Technologies’ development and the Internet popularization changed communication, data exchange and information in society, which started to live in a network. The media and social networks have enabled the fast dissemination of content by any person, sufficing has Internet connection, to disseminate harmful content, as fake news, created for many purposes as political, social or economic manipulation, cyberbullying, hate speech, fake profiles among others. The Internet misuse and its consequences makes the legal academy and state (Legislative, Executive and Judiciary) rethink the legal system to make it compatible with the Internet, trying to stop the misinformation practices that are harmful to democracy and causes social damages. Furthermore, is necessary to balance the right of freedom expression versus the protection of intimacy, privacy, honor and the image of a victim of harmful content on the Web. In this sense, contemporary civil liability has an extremely important paper, especially for its retributive and preventive feature. This text also demonstrates that the time is a crucial factor in cases fake news dissemination, notably because of the speed of content replication on the Internet. Still, this article had an analysis about the efficiency of Brazilian legal system and jurisprudence about this theme and were highlighted some advanced discusses in another countries, to contrast the necessity to have an effective legislation, public politics and digital education to avoid fake news. Will be used the deductive method, bibliographic substrates and qualitative research.