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Disinformation in Latin America
The ‘office of hate’
Those who believe the Bolsonaro administration had an explicit commitment to use disinformation as a political tool point to a shadowy organisation known by its critics as ‘the office of hate’. This was, allegedly, an informal organisation formed by Eduardo Bolsonaro, political advisors, friendly bloggers, and wealthy businessmen, which ensured that political opponents or those seen as having betrayed the cause were singled out for online vilification. Former anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, who resigned as security minister in 2020, was widely insulted across social media and accused of being a communist, a traitor, and a crook. When the health minister disagreed with the president’s anti-vaccination position on Covid-19, there was a proliferation of unsubstantiated online accusations that he was corrupt.
- Introduction
- What’s in the toolbox?
- Hate speech in the mix
- Coming next: social media and artificial intelligence
- The ubiquity of social media
- The Cambridge Analytica story
- Brazil’s false claims of electoral fraud
- The ‘office of hate’
- AMLO’s information wars by press conference
- Petro: a president with a loudspeaker
- Media made in Russia
- The Chinese presence
- Down the road of domestic polarisation
- An army of hipster influencers
- How to regulate social media
- Fake news is worryingly resilient