Fractured memory – genealogy of conspiratorial fake news in the 2022 elections. Discourses on race, social class and gender
Discourse. Fake News. Gender. Binarism. Race.
This research analyzes the relationship between fake news and extreme right discourses in Brazil. Starting from a thematic trajectory of the reference discursive sequences “Terra Plana” and “Deus. Pátria. Família”, we identified in the genealogy and in the axis of the formulation of false news, propagated in electoral periods, the mobilization of meanings constructed from the hate speech referring to race, gender and class. We bring the intersectional clipping from the perspective of the systematization of a (un)informative and fascist-based discursive policy. The centrality of the study lies in the way intersectionality organizes spaces of power and inequality, with profound implications for the interdiscursive memory of and about identity struggles in capitalist society.