Abstract

ARES, Graziela; VILLEN, Gabriela; GITAHY, Leda Maria Caira  and  TESSLER, Leandro R.. Memory and disinformation: the far-right attacks on Brazilian public universities. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2022, n.73, pp.53-66.  Epub Mar 31, 2022. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2022.73a05.

Official data prior to 2016 and experiences, individual and collective, have recorded the promotion of access and diversity in higher education by the federal government in Brazil. Since 2016, guided by the desire for a minimal state in the country, Bolsonaro has demanded interventions in recent history that legitimized the dismantling of the welfare state before the positive experience was consolidated as official memory. Specifically, about the public university, we identify that bolsonarism mobilizes the fears and anxieties of the people to justify the dismantling and institutional harassment of the public university. Our purpose was to analyse how disinformation on social media has been used for political purposes by the federal government and its support network.

Keywords : disinformation; memory; Bolsonaro; far-right wing.

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