The pre-election period, as a whole, was also atypical. The election and the campaign itself were extremely polarized (Soares, et al., 2019), with candidates connected to center ideologies being almost ignored by the public.
Filling his campaign with far-right views and polemic declarations about minorities and opponents, the candidate defeated leftist Fernando Haddad from the Worker’s Party (PT).
The 2018 Brazilian presidential election happened amidst several controversies, especially surrounding Jair Bolsonaro, the representative of the Social Liberal Party (PSL). Introduction: Social media in public service Our results show that: (1) messages on both platforms used structural strategies to portray urgency and create a negative emotional framing (2) tweets often framed disinformation as a “rational” explanation and, (3) while WhatsApp messages frequently relied on authorities and shared conspiracy theories, spreading less truthful stories than tweets. We focused on identifying the most used strategies in each platform. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach that combined critical discourse analysis and a quantitative aggregate approach to discuss a dataset of 53 original tweets and 54 original WhatsApp messages. Our case study is the disinformation campaign used to discredit the electronic ballot that was used for the election. This paper aims to analyze and compare the discursive strategies used to spread and legitimate disinformation on Twitter and WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Discursive strategies for disinformation on WhatsApp and Twitter during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election
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