Misinformation has become a severe problem in the digital communication ecosystem and has been bringing many problems to democracies and different areas of our society. Circulating on different platforms and in different formats, fake news directly impacts contemporary communicative flows, especially in the field of politics. But how can we combat the circulation of fake news? In celebration of the day of fake news combat in April, FGV ECMI invited professionals to discuss the main challenges in tackling misinformation in the context of digital communication.

Participants:

Natália Leal - CEO of Lupa

Lorena Regattieri - Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation

Rafael Evangelista - Professor of the Graduate Program in Scientific and Cultural Dissemination at Unicamp

Victor Piaia - Professor at FGV ECMI