FACT-CHECKING IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DISINFORMATION: a case study of Agência Lupa and its strategies for the recovery of factual truth
Media; Fact-checking; Desinformation; Journalism
Fact-checking (GRAVES, 2013; SEIBT, 2019, SCOFIELD, 2019, MANTZARLIS, 2017, SANTOS, 2019) is emerging as an important journalistic practice in the disinformation scenario (WARDLE & DERAKHSHAN, 2017) stimulated by countless factors, like intense mediatization in society (SODRÉ, 2006; BASTOS, 2012; HJARVARD, 2014; BRAGA, 2012), the active role of the user that also places himself as an emitter and its implications (MORETZSOHN, 2017; MARTINO, 2015) and the business model imposed by digital platforms (MOROZOV, 2018; HAN, 2018; BUCCI, 2019), in addition to the decline of journalism (CHRISTOFOLETTI, 2019; MELLO, 2020; DINIZ, 2018). In this thesis we aim to figure out how Agência Lupa tries to fight disinformation through fact-checking. Our main goal with the case study (GIL, 2017; YIN, 2005) is to see how Agência Lupa acts in the fight against disinformation by analyzing the fact-checking practices and the production of different projects and formats in 2020 to weave general reflection about the potential and the limitations of the fact-checking practice seeking factual truth fortification (BUCCI, 2019; ARENDT, 2016; SANTAELLA, 2019).