@article{Melo_2021, title={The post-truth in social networks as a discursive resource for mass manipulation }, volume={1}, url={https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/257}, DOI={10.25189/2675-4916.2020.v1.n4.id257}, abstractNote={<p>This work aims to present the discursive strategies of manipulation presente in the production of fake news from the gay kit, addressed to presidential candidate Fernando Haddad, during the presidential election period in Brazil, in 2018. <br>As specific objectives, the article proposes to investigate the post-truth in today's society and how this event influences discursive practices, in addition to identifying the elements that reveal the manipulation in the discourses exposed in the sphere of social networks and the discursive resources behind fake news in analyze. Thus, to work with social media discursive practices, due to the material for analysis, speeches from Facebook's social network were initially collected, related to the field of politics. After this process, a general corpus was selected, based on the data collected, and then a more specific corpus to be exposed in the analysis of this work. From this, the collected material was identified and selected. Therefore, for the analysis of the corpus, the “discursive strategies for the analysis of the manipulative discourse” were adopted as categories of analysis, outlined by van Dijk (2008b, 2009). The present article is inserted in the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), coined by linguist Norman Fairclough and consolidated as a discipline in 1990. Within the manipulation strategies, the use of ideological polarization, positive self-presentation, speech macroates, among others, were verified.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Cadernos de Linguística}, author={Melo, Istárlet Kétile Santos de}, year={2021}, month={Feb.}, pages={01–19} }