DLLEM holds an investigative lecture on the creation of fake news

Studies presented by the Igarapé Institute show that the dissemination of fake news increased after the 2022 elections in Brazil, a time when publications of misleading content became frequent on social networks. The Department of Modern Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures at UFRN (DLLEM), linked to the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA/UFRN), will hold, next Monday, October 23rd, the Fake News event: Investigative lecture on the making of fake news to discuss the subject. The action takes place from 4pm to 6pm, via Google Meet.
The activity is open to the public, registration is not required, it will propose a study of fake news and help identify elements that make up fake news, in order to be able to deconstruct it. The action also aims to teach about the process of checking fake news and critical analysis of the media. For more information, access the Instagram profile of the Spanish Literature course.
The lecture is aimed at students studying Literature and Journalism and a certificate will be issued to participants. Karen Oliveira, a student on the Journalism course at UFRN, comments that she wants to participate in the action, as "a lecture like this is essential to raise awareness among the population about the dangers of misinformation and how to avoid it. In the journalism course, we learn to check whether the information published by media outlets is reliable."
The action is being organized by Thayane Campos, coordinator and teacher of the Spanish Language and Literature course, and will be taught by journalist Carolina Marques. Currently, Carolina is studying Discursive memory: meanings and meanings in fact-checking, in the doctoral program in Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), and is carrying out her sandwich doctorate at the Université de Lille, in France.
"In my thesis, I try to understand how these fact-checking agencies, which nowadays are trying to confront fake news, use discursive memory in an attempt to present themselves as something true. With the lecture, we will seek to better understand what we are reading, identifying what can lead that content to be false or true. I believe that this understanding is important, as the way in which fake news is diluted in society is much faster than true news", highlights the speaker.
According to Carolina, there are several factors that make people fall for fake news these days, "we can never think that people who fall for fake news are less informed people. It has nothing to do with that. Currently, fake news is increasingly evolved, in the visual sense or in how it is made so that we believe in it. We also have the commercial issue of fake news, which has become a profitable market, something that will be discussed in the lecture".