Propagação de notícias falsas na internet por meio das redes sociais e a responsabilidade civil de provedores de aplicação: o caso da eleição para presidente da república no brasil em 2018

Abstract

The elections for the office of President of the Republic in Brazil in the year 2018 were impacted by the great amount of use of social networks, which were used for political organization in the most diverse forms such as electoral propaganda, political-partisan organization, news production and sharing, among others. This situation brought not only positive aspects, but also a massive spread of fake news in social networks and with that the need to reflect on a delimitation of the concept of fake news for the Law. Thus, the present work has as general purpose to examine the legal implications of the propagation of false news in social networks during the presidential elections in Brazil in the year 2018, using both bibliographical analysis of legal productions on the subject in its historical and current context, starting with an analysis of the civil responsibility of internet application providers and the performance of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in the elections, using a deductive and qualitative method, in order to understand that the fight against false news is of a complexity that demands the joint action of many social sectors.