Érica Anita Baptista

TL;DR: Investigating dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook suggests that the intimate nature of WhatsApp communication has important consequences for the dynamics of misinformation sharing, particularly with regard to facilitating social corrections.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine as dinâmicas da apropriacao politica do WhatsApp, em comparacao with o Facebook, com foco nas relacoes entre a desinformacao and a formacao da opiniao publica sobre a politica, tendo em vista o cenario eleitoral de 2018 and suas reverberacoes pos-eleitorais.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present comprehensive descriptive results of a national survey of internet users in Brazil, focusing on political information on social media, and find that Brazilians are very active social media users, particularly on Facebook and WhatsApp, and consider these platforms very important to fulfill a myriad of political and informational aims.

TL;DR: In this article, a cobertura midiatica da corrupcao afeta a percepcao da corrupto e a avaliacao de governo.

TL;DR: In this article, a panel brings together a selection of recent studies that advance the methods available for the forensic, mixed-methods, in-depth, and large-scale analysis of inauthentic information operations.