The reinfosphere in the pandemic of the new coronavirus: Infodemia, fake news and perverse sociability

Abstract

The article integrates expanded investigations on the uses of digital social networks in everyday life. In this text, we problematize the production of fake news in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, based on the practice of “network reinformation”. The main objective is to seek to understand the development of false news in the dynamics of the relations of digital social networks in Brazil, in a complex circuit that acts in the fabrication of a “reinfosphere”. In addition to the bibliographic path, the research methodology consisted of the content analysis of eleven fake news about the pandemic, which circulated in the year 2020. The study revealed that the experience of “infodemia”, particularly in the context of reinformation, may be, somehow, understood by perversion as an essential mark of contemporary sociability, that which subverts and / or breaks with factual truth as a social bond