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Professor é autor de capítulo do livro Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research

Bolsonaro's hate network: From the fringes to the presidency

This chapter discusses the origins, development, and characteristics the hate network built around the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro. How is it structured? How does it work? What factors have allowed it to exist? How does it affect the health of Brazilian democracy? It argues that Bolsonaro’s followers took advantage from an institutional crisis taking place in the late 2010s. At that time, the legacy media provided a massive coverage associating PT (Workers' Party), which was ahead of the presidency, to corruption, thus fostering a hate campaign against it. In that scenario, Bolsonaro emerged as the leader of the far-right opposition to PT.

Leia aqui: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/86287