Resumo:
This dissertation analyzes the rise of the far right in Brazil between 2016 and 2018, articulating
the crisis of hegemony, the reconfiguration of the political field, and the role of digital social
networks in shaping new forms of consensus. Drawing on Gramscian concepts of hegemony
and counter-hegemony, it examines how the Brazilian New Right was structured in the context
of crisis, employing social media pages as Private Apparatuses of Hegemony (APH), in
dialogue with the tradition of liberal institutes that, since the 1980s, have sought to produce and
disseminate neoliberal and conservative ideas. The corpus of the research encompasses social
media pages and posts that mobilize anticommunist, conservative, misogynistic, and religious
narratives, articulating discourses aimed at legitimizing authoritarian political projects. More
than the mere circulation of fake news, the central concern is to understand how these
statements operate in the construction of meaning, in the dispute over consensus, and in the
shaping of political subjectivities. The results indicate that such pages functioned as key
instruments of mobilization and symbolic dispute, transforming disinformation into a political
resource and intensifying the dynamics of democratic crisis in contemporary Brazil between
2016 and 2018.