Abstract
This article reflects on the role of journalism in the deconstruction of fake news propaganda that came out in the media on the last day of the 2019 parliamentary election campaign in Portugal. We collected news items carried by the Portuguese media and contextualised this media coverage with regard to the impact of disinformation on confidence in the news with the help of data collated as part of the Digital News Report project. We found that journalistic scrutiny, aided by the characteristics of the Portuguese media system, might have contributed to a zero effect of this fake news on the election results, unlike what happened in elections in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil.
Highlights
The role of journalism in combating fake news: the case of the last day of the 2019 election campaign in Portugal
We found that journalistic scrutiny, aided by the characteristics of the Portuguese media system, might have contributed to a zero effect of this fake news on the election results, unlike what happened in elections in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil
How Audiences Are Making Sense of Fake News, Lund, Lund University
Summary
Resumo Este artigo reflete sobre o papel do jornalismo na desconstrução de uma notícia falsa, de teor propagandístico, mediatizada no último dia da campanha para as legislativas de 2019, em Portugal. Procedeu-se à recolha de notícias veiculadas nos órgãos de comunicação social portugueses, contextualizando a cobertura mediática no quadro do impacto da desinformação na confiança em notícias, com o auxílio de dados coligidos no âmbito do projeto Digital News Report. Concluiu-se que o escrutínio jornalístico, adjuvado pelas características do sistema mediático português, poderá ter contribuído para um impacto nulo desta notícia falsa no resultado eleitoral, ao contrário do observado em atos eleitorais noutros países, nomeadamente nos EUA, Reino Unido e Brasil. The role of journalism in combating fake news: the case of the last day of the 2019 election campaign in Portugal
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