Viviane Borelli 208 provide us with clues so that we could observe other spatialities in more detail. In 2020, as part of the Cimid research group, we ob- served and collected messages about the pandemic circulating in the groups we were part of, totaling 17 groups (Borelli et al., 2022). As well as collecting data, I also followed the journalistic checks. I then began to analyze the collected data more carefully and realized that it was possible to identify a recurrence of for- mats: text passed directly into the app, audio, videos, or photog- raphy accompanied by a message. In this way, in addition to the phenomenon of false mes- sages circulating in WhatsApp groups, which refers to a complex issue in the context of disinformation, deliberate manipulation of messages, and the generation of deep fakes, among others, there were changes in journalistic practices. For example, G1, Brazil’s largest news portal, belonging to the Globo Organizations, began to do more checking than usual in the “Fact or Fake” section5, created in 2018 (the election year in which Jair Bolso- naro won). What justifies looking at the data from 2020 is the large number of fact-checks, which in 2021 was half of it (500 articles published by G1) and a similar quantity in 20226, the year of the presidential elections. Faced with the complexification of disinformation pro- cesses, the accentuation of manipulation, the spread of false information, and political polarization, in 2020, G1 carried out more than 1,000 checks (2/3 were about the pandemic) and of the 10 most accessed articles7 about the checks made, nine were directly related to the pandemic. When I cross-referenced this information produced by the massive system (Carlón, 2021) with the data collected in the Underground, I noticed that all nine messages circulated through our monitored groups. Of the nine titles, five start with the word “mes- sage”; two with “text”; one with “photo” and one with “video”. In other words, the headlines were focused on showing that there 5 Created in July 2018, during the election period in Brazil. 6 Information at: https://g1.globo.com/fato-ou-fake/noticia/2022/12/30/fato- ou-fake-publica-12-mil-checagens-em-2022-veja-as-mais-lidas.ghtml 7 Information at: https://g1.globo.com/retrospectiva/2020/noticia/2020/12/17/ fato-ou-fake-em-ano-de-pandemia-mais-de-mil-checagens-realizadas.ghtml
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