Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211009073 |