Last Thursday (8), white smoke coming out of the chimney of the sistine chapel indicated that . Robert Francis Prevost, who had been named Cardinal by Pope Francis, is a native of Chicago and .
In front of Peter’s Basilica a crowd gathered to hear the first words of the new Pope. At the same time, social networking monitoring and clipping from indicated intense activity in WhatsApp public groups, with new information about Robert Prevost being released every second.
Cardinal Prevost used his account to express your opinions and, especially, to share news about the . Some of their tweets were quickly reproduced on other social networks, such as the one in which the vice-president of the United States, is quoted with the words “Jd Vance is wrong” with regard to how Christianity considers love for others.
In public groups of, right -wing users quickly celebrated the fact that the new Pope is American, which they considered, at first, a victory of, pointing out that the US president influenced the decision -making process about the new leader of the Catholic Church.
To reinforce the argument, they used a Trump post on their social network where Prevost congratulates and expresses interest in finding it soon.
In the leftist groups, users initially demonstrated skepticism as to the possible conservatism of Cardinal Prevost. As new information pointed out that the new Pope follows a line similar to that of Pope Francis, skepticism began to become a source of celebration of what users called the defeat of conservatism.
However, what really stood out in the monitoring of Palver was the fact that a portion of the right used the high engagement of the theme to try to bind with A .. This attempt to bind the themes began on Saturday (3), even before the beginning of the on Wednesday (7).
In the initial messages about this attempt to link the two topics, the right began to release videos accusing the president to be the holder of an account in the Vatican bank with billions of reais.
After choosing the new Pope, the messages intensified and also diversified, but keeping the narrative line that a part of the INSS money was taken to the Vatican by the presidential plane at the time of the funeral of .
This type of narrative disconnected from reality is quite common in WhatsApp groups. In this situation, however, it has as its background a digital communication strategy.
The volume of messages counting the same argumentative line, approximately 30 mentions per 100,000 messages exchanged on the platform is highlighted. This volume indicates that there is an organic adhesion to the history being told.
What draws attention in this context is that by linking the fraud of the With the Vatican and the popularity of the discussion about Pope Leo 14, the right prevents one theme from overshadowing the other.
On the contrary, it causes engagement with the next topic, despite the fantasy narrative, and maintains INSS fraud highlighting online debate, thus dominating the discussion agenda, which, in this case, is harmful to the government.
While there is still a concern, both by the government and the press, to measure the Regarding INSS fraud and analyzing the damage caused, a portion of the right makes use of disinformation dissemination to prepare the next attack and paste the corruption in Lula and his government.
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