Silencing on traditional media and fake news: The Occupy Estelita Case as a starting point for a reflection on the theme
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2025.e99569Keywords:
Journalism, Occupy Estelita, Silencing, Fake newsAbstract
Using the coverage of the occupation of Cais José Estelita in Recife (PE) in 2014 as a basis, and aiming to evaluate the ten years of the movement completed in 2024, we consider how the silencing of themes related to the social movement Ocupe Estelita points to a certain emptiness and discrediting of the mainstream media. This can contribute to the emergence of fake news as a social phenomenon. Therefore, an analysis of printed newspapers from Pernambuco was conducted between May and June 2014. This analysis compared the space given to the different sides of the debate (Movimento Ocupe Estelita and Consórcio Novo Recife), taking into account the events that occurred at the time.
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