Marcas da mediatização no jornalismo fact-checking: um estudo sobre a cobertura da pandemia de covid-19 realizada por Agência Lupa e Aos Fatos

Abstract

The development of communication technologies in recent decades, highlighting the popularization of the commercial and mobile internet, together with the various social practices that emerged in this new context – a phenomenon that we can consider as a 'access revolution', they reconfigured the relations between the instances of production and recognition of the media system, as well as dynamized the discursive circulation between these two poles. In the specific case of the journalistic field, essentially responsible for the production of informative content and for part of the formation of the media public sphere, we can point out several changes inside and outside the work environment of newsrooms. Therefore, the practice of fact-checking emerges as a forceful response to such concerns. It is worth remembering that the professional skills of data verification and verification have always been essential in news work, but they are reconfigured in contemporary times. Indeed, several verification vehicles have emerged in the media landscape. In Brazil it was no different, so we looked at two of these: Agência Lupa and Aos Fatos. In this sense, this work seeks to analyze the discursive strategies used by two digital vehicles specialized in fact checking, Agência Lupa and Aos Fatos, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to understand the incidence of mediatization processes in this context. way of doing journalism.