IMPORTÂNCIA DA CULTURA POLÍTICA ÉTICA PARA EXERCÍCIO DA CIDADANIA: análise das políticas públicas adotadas no Brasil para o combate a desinformação

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ABSTRACT

The premise of the research is the analysis of actions and measures, by the public authorities and public-private partnerships, which were and are being taken to combat the dissemination of false information, in addition to the mechanisms adopted and made available to check the veracity of information in national scope and how, directly or indirectly, such an examination is contributing to the formation of critical thinking, ethical political culture and, consequently, the exercise of citizenship. Thus, the main objective was to analyze the public policies to combat disinformation, adopted in Brazil, in the period from 2018 to 2023, their use with a partisan political nature and the mechanisms for checking information made available both by the public authorities and by partnerships public private and private and voluntary initiatives. To this end, it brought the following secondary objectives: Analyze ethical issues in relation to the dissemination of information as a political strategy; Study the antecedents of disinformation; Raise and describe public policies, measures and actions proposed by the Executive Branch during the period from 2018 to 2023, focusing on the electoral race; discuss the initiatives of the three powers, both in combating disinformation, the dissemination of notably untrue facts in electoral communication and on social networks and the measures taken to investigate and investigate unethical and criminal conduct in the virtual environment; map and analyze negotiations at an international level during the period from 2020 to 2023; Examine how these policies for combating disinformation are effective in strengthening the exercise of citizenship and whether these policies meet the national policy proposal, and; suggest actions to be implemented to combat disinformation, with the results and analyzes of public policies, to achieve the emancipation of Brazilian citizens. To this end, the research methodology used is deductive, qualitative in nature, with explanatory bibliographic and documentary objectives. It is expected to obtain the observation that the checking instruments available influence, even if subjectively, the improvement of the population's ethical political culture. There was less effort to contain the spread of false information by the executive, while the legislative and judiciary demonstrated greater diligence in containing and repressing the escalation of manipulation of facts, both in the political sphere and on social networks and that partnerships public, private and voluntary initiatives have proven to be effective in combating fake news, with the conclusion that the strategy to combat disinformation must be multilateral and multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on Education to improve critical thinking, ethical-political emancipation and the exercise of citizenship of the individual and society as a whole. Keywords: Disinformation; Fake news in politics; Checking instruments; Culture Politics Ethics; Political citizenship;