The web of challenges of disinformation on Meta platforms in Brazil and France


In the last Brazilian election, Meta was the company that received the most money of all candidates’ total spending, with the presence of misinformation in some campaigns. In France, the government agency VIGINUM also found foreign disinformation campaigns on the same platform. Facebook pages, groups, ads, WhatsApp, and Instagram create a vast social media ecosystem where fake news can propagate. In this project, we aim to study how disinformation is disseminated across Meta platforms, evaluating the use of strategies from the Brazilian Eleições sem Fake project in the French context. In this abstract, we briefly resume the project’s previous works and present the earliest stages of the works in the French context.