Ada C. Machado da Silveira 72 mon among the BRICS member societies in this regard? The issue now seems to find political conditions to be addressed. Returning to the political scenario that impacts the communication crisis of journalistic mediation, we point out some situations that make us wonder whether the Cold War threatens to renew itself. The complexity of collaborative con- tent production processes, phenomena such as digital terrorism, the actions of digital militias, hackers, robots or the explo- sion of virtual bubbles. The impact of “pseudomedia” patterns, or the distortion of journalistic mimicry (Palau-Sampio, 2022), is established amid platformed news circulation. With the pur- pose of attracting and engaging, many socio-technical resources are increased, and it is no longer possible to avoid equating the news activity of professional journalism with infotainment. The sphere of influence of media activity is expanded, supported by content of private interest, or restrictive to the quasi-public impact of opinion leaders, influencers, supported by the dissemi- nation of personal and emotional perspectives that encourage populism T . hus, questions arise about news quality when its contents are transplanted, or when produced for consciousness, for circulation on TikTok, its presence in WhatsApp bubbles or even in the more open architecture of Instagram or Facebook. From X (formerly Twitter), it becomes clear what Ferrara (2023) points out, in what brings us closer to the post-Agamben State, a State of exception, now militarized and technological, whose nuances we experience in a Brazil populated by one of the greatest prison populations in the world. Empirically, it is necessary to highlight the bases of news production that bring us closer to the State of Exception. Threatened by ruptures that shake the institutional structures that intend to sustain democratic life, with the lim- its of power threatened, human rights violated, the practice of biopolitics and surveillance, migratory waves, especially of refu- gees, Brazil has in its news activity a job that is not always recog- nized as being at the mercy of multiple demands. At the same time, the autocratization of society is grow- ing, supported by procedures protected by industrial secrecy of platform corporations and which are introjected into the algorithmic processes of digital social media. If social media were
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