New Media Ecosystem and disinformation as a Political Strategy of Populism

Abstract

This text deals with phenomena of disinformation generally referred as fake news, associating them with agendas marked by forms of nationalist populism (eventually neo-fascists) that resort to social networks to produce and select preferential narratives on the issues under discussion. It considers that such phenomena it in a context resulting from the availability of the recipients themselves to discard the confirmation of the information to the detriment of the gratification provided by it, implying the participation of the recipients in their dissemination and sharing and increasing the inequality in access to information. Methodologically, this text inserts itself in the modality of the essay, using the critical hermeneutics of the texts, discussing empirical data previously provided by documentary data.