To Hell with The Truth: Support for false statements had seven times more interactions on social
To Hell with The Truth
Support for false statements had seven times more interactions on social media
Feb.18.2020 2:08PM
A former employee of a mass mailing agency via WhatsApp was summoned on Tuesday (11) to testify in the parliamentary committee that investigates the spread of false news in the election.
Hans River do Nascimento was the source of a Folha report, published in December 2018, about the fraudulent use of names and CPFs in messages blasts by the application. In front of deputies and senators, Hans River offered false information and made accusations against one of the authors of the article, Patrícia Campos Mello.
The reporter gathered evidence - screenshots of conversations, audios, and documents sent by the attacker - and countered point-by-point the lies reproduced on social media.
Unmasked the lie, unlike expected, there was no retreat in the posts. What we saw on social media was an enormous willingness to deny the evidence in a massive herd movement towards disinformation.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/ombudsman/2020/02/to-hell-with-the-truth.shtml
Really sad situation, isn't it? We're very familiar with this in the U.S.
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