Desinformação na Internet: O QAnon como Regime de Informação

Abstract

This study focuses on the Information Regimes in their relationship with the social contexts in which they are inserted, acting in a dominant way to disseminate information and to influence society according to the ideas they convey. In this context, information is conceived in its role of reducing uncertainty, while disinformation can be understood through the repercussion of various terms, among which are fake news, responsible for uniting false content and the intentionality of those who disseminate it, which undermines trust in formal institutions of knowledge. Thus gained strength the QAnon conspiracy theory. Therefore, the theme of this research is disinformation and the thematic focus is disinformation on the Internet through Information Regimes, taking QAnon as an example, focusing on the fake news it disseminates. The established objective was to characterize QAnon as an Information Regime that disseminates misinformation with informational consequences for society. As for the methodology, it is an exploratory-descriptive research, using documentary research as a procedure, with a case study. The approach is qualitative and the technique used is content analysis with non-participant observation. As an analysis of the results, it shows how the user “Q” uses his network of followersto spread false information. It ends by presenting how QAnon modeled an Information Regime based on dogmatism. The themes addressed by him are organized thematically and from there the pointsthat the user “Q” sought to reach were inferred.