The leader of the Chamber, (RJ), asked this Tuesday (20) the National Prosecutor’s Office for the Defense of Democracy, to take action against disinformation spread by the senator (PL-RJ).
(PL)’s eldest son released, on social media, a video with the president’s decontextualized speech that “poor people were not born to study, poor people were born to work.”
LIndbergh states that the editing of the video “suppressed excerpts, reorganized sentences and artificially reconstructed the speech”, attributing to Lula “a position diametrically opposed to that which he maintains, a typical technique of audiovisual disinformation”.
The PT leader also says that the post was accompanied by additional comments that “go beyond legitimate political criticism and enter the field of imputing criminal offenses, expanding the reach and severity of the false message disseminated.”
“The intentional editing of audiovisual content with selective cutting, context suppression and semantic inversion is recognized in the literature as one of the most sophisticated and harmful forms of contemporary disinformation”, indicates the filed document.
He recalls that, in recent years, the Brazilian Electoral Court has developed jurisprudence to say that fake news, manipulated videos and decontextualized speeches “constitute electoral infractions when able to influence the formation of the voter’s will”.
The federal deputy also sees negative advance political advertising. “The false attribution of a crime, associated with the intentional editing of presidential speech, constructs a narrative of political delegitimization with an unequivocal electoral purpose, even without an explicit request for a vote”, points out the text.
Lindbergh calls for the establishment of a specific procedure within the scope of the National Prosecutor’s Office of the Union for the Defense of Democracy to investigate conduct consisting of the intentional dissemination of disinformation through fraudulent editing of audiovisual content and false imputation of facts, with potential institutional and electoral impact.
It also requested the extraction of copies and sending them to the TSE as a preventive measure to monitor and repress this modus operandi during the electoral period, and also to the STF, to evaluate any possible connection with the fake news investigation.
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