ABSTRACT
The use of social networks of the internet has increased exponentially since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. This growth has made them even more conducive to the massive release of fake news, becoming even a social and public health problem. In order to understand the modus operandi of fake news on social networks, this article aims to promote an epistemological discussion that seeks to understand the process of production and dissemination of (un)truths in these environments. To do so, one starts from the concepts of ‘truth’ and ‘regimes of truth’ (Foucault, 1979Foucault, M. (1979). Microfísica do poder. Org. e trad. de Roberto Machado. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal.), by aligning them with the psychosocial and cultural notions of perception and imagination (Sartre, 1996Sartre, J. (1996). O imaginário: Psicologia fenomenológica da imaginação. São Paulo: Ática.; Kalantzis et al., 2020Kalantzis, M., Cope, B., Pinheiro, P. (2020). Letramentos1ª ed. Campinas, Editora Unicamp.). Then, one seeks to revisit and expand the discussion on the concept of ‘multi-synopticon’ (Pinheiro, 2014Pinheiro, P. (2014). A era do multissinóptico: que (novos) letramentos estão em jogo?. Educação em Revista, Belo Horizonte, v. 30, n. 2, p. 137-160. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-46982014000200007
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), in an attempt to understand the technological e social complexity of social networks on the production and dissemination of fake news, which resizes broadcasting, narrowcasting e individual casting systems. Finally, one presents some considerations on the possibility of a critical education to deal with information circulating on social networks.
Keywords:
Fake news; social networks; (regimes of) truth; multi-synopticon; critical education