Information clutter and affective polarisation: an analysis of emotions in disinformation posts in three Brazilian political conflicts on Twitter
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The article presents a study about the disinformation and the affective polarization on digital platforms. The research analyzed the presence and type of information disorders and their relation with the mobilization of emotions in 3 brazilian conflicts on Twitter: legalization of abortion, an episode of racial discrimination and opening of investigation for irregularities in actions to combat Covid-19 in the country. Through monitoring computational techniques, gathering and processing extracted data from the platform, a sample of the 100 most shared messages of each conflict (n=300) was composed. These publications were qualitatively analyzed to identify and classify the type of information disorders and verify the mobilization of the emotional framework in these tweets with disinformation. The results show that in the three conflicts analyzed it was possible to identify a large amount of content with information disorders among the most shared posts and its close relation with negative emotions (anger and disgust), indicating the relation between the disinformation and the affective polarization.
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