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Articles • Rev. bras. linguist. apl. 20 (3) • Jul-Sep 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-6398202014635   copy

#FraudenasUrnas: Disinformation’s Discursive Strategies on Twitter During Brazilian 2018 Elections

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the discursive strategies used to legitimize disinformation in social media, particularly on Twitter. Our dataset focuses on disinformation regarding suspicion on frauds in the electronic ballot during the 2018 presidential election. Based on this event, 276,875 retweets and 84,577 tweets exclusively with disinformation from political conversations were collected and legitimation strategies of the fifty most successful tweets were examined (VAN LEEUWEN, 2007VAN LEEUWEN, T. J. Legitimation in discourse and communication. Discourse & Communication, Londres, v. 1, n. 1, p. 91-112, 2007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481307071986
https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481307071986... ). The results point to the association of personal authority and moral evaluation as the key components of the most successful validated retweets. Thus, users with authority in these medias have a significative importance for spreading this type of discourse.

KEYWORDS:
disinformation; discursive strategies; social media; politics

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