DISINFORMATION IN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING PROCESS: AN ANALYSIS UNDER THE ASPECT OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S INFORMATIONAL COMPETENCE

Abstract

Democracy presupposes the participation of people in decision-making processes that, to some extent, affect their lives individually and/or collectively. One of the pillars of representative democracy is freedom of expression, conceived as a fundamental right that, in the Brazilian constitutional context, guarantees citizens the “free expression of thought.” Another support, no less important, is the right to information, also protected by the Federal Constitution, which guarantees people access to informational content of individual and collective interest. But what happens when free speech is used to spread false information? And when this corrupted process uses technological facilities and the lack of informational competence of users to spread misinformation in the country? It is in this context that the electronic voting system has been under constant attack, especially in the social media environment. The general objective of this article is to map academic articles that focus on informational competence, disinformation and fake news, in addition to specific objectives: to contextualize informational competence and disinformation, to identify actions already taken to combat disinformation in the brazilian electronic voting system, and, to propose educational initiatives for its strengthening. The collection was carried out on the Google Scholar portal, using the terms "information competence", "disinformation", "fake news”, in addition to "democracy ","electronic voting" and "electronic ballot box", in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Finally, it presented a proposal to stimulate the educational initiative within the scope of the Brazilian Electoral Courts.