Memória e desinformação: Os ataques da extrema-direita às universidades públicas brasileiras

In: Relações internacionais: R:I, Heft 73, S. 53-66

Abstract

Official data prior to 2016 and expe-riences, individual and collective, have recorded the promotion of access and diversity in higher education by the federal government in Brazil. Since 2016, guided by the desire for a minimal state in the country, Bolsonaro has demanded interventions in recent history that legitimized the dismantling of the welfare state before the positive experience was consolidated as official memory. Specifically, about the public university, we identify that bolsonarism mobilizes the fears and anxieties of the people to justify the dismantling and institutional harassment of the public university. Our purpose was to analyze how disinformation on social media has been used for political purposes by the federal government and its support network.