A relação entre liberdade de expressão e desinformação no ambiente político: o uso das redes sociais e sua possível interferência na polarização e os reflexos no regime democrático.

Abstract

This article intends to analyze how a fundamental human right, freedom of expression, can be engendered into an ingenious excuse for politicking based on untrue (and potentially mass manipulative) facts: disinformation. It is also intended to analyze how the current policy, especially the Brazilian one, having social networks as a means of disseminating disinformation, can raise and base itself in illegitimate way in discourses that use freedom of expression as a subterfuge for creation and propagation of misinformation and how it becomes a substrate for polarization; Finally, it will also be analyzed how this mixture can directly affect the democratic process itself and the democracy of a country.