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Present Tense, Ep. 11 - Fake News
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-Latin; Communications + JournalismKeywords
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And she came in and touched my foot,
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she touched my hand and walked away.
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I was doing my job
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and what they had created on the internet
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it was a fiction about me.
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Misinformation or fake news
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can have very serious consequences.
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When I woke up on Friday morning,
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my life had been turned upside down.
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I had no record of what an attack is,
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a virtual lynching.
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So the importance of media
education is there.
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Fake news is now a social problem.
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And we need to fight.
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If, in the past, information took days
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to arrive, today, with the internet,
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one click is enough.
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Everything is instantaneous, however,
not everything that appears
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on a computer or cell
phone screen is true.
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Fake news spreads like the
plague and the media...
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I\'m an artist and I\'ve been
living between Paris and Sao Paulo
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for 15 years.
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And I live more inside the airport
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than out of it.
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More on the move than at home.
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And this transit helps me create
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my works, like La Bête, for example.
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Which is a job that has no language, right?
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It\'s a job that doesn\'t need a language,
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but that is a language
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which is accessed in multiple languages.
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How much you have, Gil?
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Hey.
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Good Morning!
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Good morning, Wagner!
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When I\'m designing a job,
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or imagining a project,
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here is the place to do emails,
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have lunch, play with the dog,
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to imagine how
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would be the technical structure
of this work, you know?
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Imagine, make connections,
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talk about production, diffusion.
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How is the life of this project when
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it\'s ready.
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Well, from “La Bete”, on Tuesday...
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Do you know if the staff has
already made the letter of...
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Because I asked for an image
authorization letter.
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For all the people who
go to see “La Bete”
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I want them to sign.
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\"The Animal\" is the experience,
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it is this touch that exists
between the person and the object.
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And when I saw \"The Animal\",
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I saw inside a glass box,
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that was very impactful for me.
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I thought...
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I could become an animal.
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\"Becoming an Animal\", by Lygia Clark.
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Between observation and
action, “La Bete” is formed
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and concludes as a performance.
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In 2015, I was invited to present “La Bete”
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and I decided to opt for yes.
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Right after the presentation,
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I was invited to perform at a
lot of other festivals in Brazil
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and the interaction always happened.
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Until 2017.
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The educational technology coordinator
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works with the teacher and students
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to achieve pedagogical ends,
through technology.
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It is a position that did
not exist in the municipality,
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it is rare in Brazilian municipalities,
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only that it is an essential job today,
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because we see how much technology
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It\'s in everyone\'s everyday life.
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And few are the Licentiate
and Pedagogy courses
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which have subjects dealing
with educational technology.
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So this is a big problem today.
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My day to day starts with a meeting
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to pick up the week\'s work.
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So we see which formations
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we will do this week,
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we analyze who we can contact
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to bring to do some training.
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So I\'ve been taking it to the teachers
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training linked to media education.
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Because this is something that
is lacking in their training.
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And you saw it, right? There are
teachers interested in doing it.
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So, it\'s not just the municipality.
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What is media education?
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It is for us to position the student
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and we mediate the student\'s relationship
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with all media,
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so that they know their responsibilities,
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so that they know how to use ethically
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and that\'s where we\'ll get to fake news.
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The term fake news was born in the coverage
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of the American electoral process,
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in the presidential elections, to refer
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to some news sites that were broadcasting
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false information about
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Hillary Clinton\'s candidacy.
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Trump, who was an opponent of Hillary Clinton,
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adopted the term in another sense,
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he came to refer to any type of coverage
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that he judged inaccurate, incorrect, unfair
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of the big press.
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And for that reason, from the beginning,
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It is a very difficult term to define.
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And there was a displacement of some scholars
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who abandoned that term
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and we started to use the term
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of \"partisan sites\", or \"hyperpartisan sites\"
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to refer to the essence of the phenomenon.
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Because the essence of the
phenomenon is not a lie.
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The essence of the phenomenon
is to adapt the facts
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to political speeches.
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You\'ll get a headline, you\'ll get a lead,
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will have an \"open\", will have quotes.
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Everything looks like a news story,
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just don\'t have the journalistic procedure
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behind this news item,
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has no assessment.
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And in this adaptation,
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you pass the limits.
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Put a headline in disagreement with the text,
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you take a fact out of context,
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and, at the limit, you lie.
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Great.
Do it.
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Hey! No, but I didn\'t mention the...
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Hey! For starters, I would like to do
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an analogy.
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Is it an analogy or a metaphor?
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Internet is like a public square.
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You... No, wait.
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My name is Peter Trento.
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And this media education is so important
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that we created a Training
and Media Center here.
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I came to talk to you
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a little bit about the
dangers of the internet.
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-It was good.
-It got better?
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-Yea.
-Great.
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We created a video channel
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for us to make some recordings
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with teachers and students
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and we also created a podcast,
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which is a longer audio format,
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for us to create a whole conversation
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about some subjects.
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Then, fake news, as it is linked to
the letter in the public notice,
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we put it as third.
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Right?
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Then we can put here to
educate the media as fourth.
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-\"Bullying\" as fifth.
-Yes.
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Testing the sound here from...
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Our society did not have
this media education.
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One, because it is very recent,
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another, because universities
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were not prepared for this.
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Now that this kind of teacher,
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which is the so-called \"digital native\",
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will begin to train in Pedagogy courses.
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So it\'s still something very new.
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The performance “La Bete” is very simple.
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As I said I became an animal,
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I became a body to be bent
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and unfolded
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by the people who propose
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to step in and manipulate me.
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The image of a girl touching
the artist\'s foot
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Wagner Schwartz, who performed naked
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during an exhibition at
the Museum of Modern Art
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of Sao Paulo, caused protests...
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They made a video of one of the parts
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from “La Bete”,
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when choreographer Elisabete Finger
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enter with her daughter
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on stage.
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...was accompanied by her mother.
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There was a notice on the door of the room.
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about nude scenes.
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And posted on social media.
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Digital militias recovered this video
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and reposted this video with a new caption,
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saying that the museum
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incited pedophilia
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and that I was a pedophile.
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\"Pedophilia is not art\"
\"Outlaws Eroticizing Child\"
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\"How could a child touch foot and hand
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of a naked man?\"
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That, to me, was revolting,
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because if i really were a pedophile
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and was dressed, in the eyes of society,
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there would be no problem.
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There were so many fake news,
so many photos of me
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spread by whatsapp
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that they connected what I was doing
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to the left.
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And that the right would
be able to save Brazil
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of this shame.
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They attacked art.
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Why art?
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Because artists denounce.
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Artists denounce, with their own bodies,
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the violence they see outside the gallery,
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from their own house,
from their own studio...
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This phenomenon is all exploitation
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of a psychological phenomenon
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known as \"confirmation bias\".
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\"Confirmation bias\" is a
tendency we have to accept,
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too easily, too uncritically,
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what confirms what we think
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and to reject, in a very harsh way,
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what criticizes
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what is incompatible with
what we already believe.
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When we have a very passionate
political position,
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our \"confirmation bias\" goes up.
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And, basically, what we\'re seeing
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is a news-producing ecosystem
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that is exploiting this vulnerability.
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Political polarization is
the cause of fake news
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or the fake news feeds
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political polarization? We don\'t know.
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They come along.
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People are producing every day
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hundreds, thousands of news
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which outrage the public.
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So it\'s like a firewood that
you throw at the fire
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and keep it on
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the temperature of the political debate,
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makes people hot-headed.
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When they\'re hot headed,
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everything that comes is food
for political polarization.
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They are very uncritical,
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accept any nonsense
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that confirms what they already think
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and they hit the share button
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to assert their political position
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and to attack the opponent\'s
political position.
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from the time that
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attacks began,
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I was forced to testify
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at the 4th Police Station for
the Repression of Pedophilia.
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So I spent three hours giving testimony.
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Then came the Parliamentary Commission
of Inquiry into ill-treatment,
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who also wanted my presence.
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I didn\'t try to defend myself, because
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I didn\'t need any defense.
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I was doing my job
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and what they had created on the internet
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it was a fiction about me.
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I didn\'t want to talk
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and I felt that I didn\'t need to speak,
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because other people were speaking for me.
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They dressed the body of “La Bete”.
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They defined that they too
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were “La Bete”.
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They were also Lygia\'s animal.
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Then there was a national uprising
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with that matter.
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And this revolt
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it was what gave me strength
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to get back to work.
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To continue creating.
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An increasingly present expression
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in our daily lives, it was chosen
as the word of the year.
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Fake news.
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For those who believe everything
they read on the internet
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and on social media, beware.
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Fake news has many disguises
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and devastating power.
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Fake news, man, is old.
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Really?
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In 1835, in The New York Sun,
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There was news that people
were found on the Moon.
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People?
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A civilization that lived on the Moon.
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And with photos proving it.
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-Damn!
-And it was in the newspaper
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The New York Sun
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and people bought this newspaper a lot.
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Why did we only hear about fake news,
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recently?
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Fake news gained prominence
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for two reasons:
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1, because it is a machine
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to work in favor of an interest;
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the other end of it is the ease
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of you doing this sharing.
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It doesn\'t require much thought when sharing,
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that\'s the big problem.
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And that\'s why this kind of content
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we have to take it to a debate at school.
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WhatsApp is a tool
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very conducive to the spread of fake news
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and misinformation in general,
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because it is end-to-end encrypted
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and forming closed networks.
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So if you are in a WhatsApp group,
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with your family, your neighbors,
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your school friends,
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that group, only the people within the group
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know what\'s going on there.
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External monitoring is not possible.
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So what we did was monitor public groups,
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that is, groups that shared
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invitations publicly.
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\"Join my group to discuss the elections,
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to discuss and support
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so-and-so\'s candidacy.\"
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The images that were checked
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and that were factually correct
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it was a ridiculous number.
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It was below 20%.
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So there was the field of the spread of the lie
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and the rumour, the unverified thing,
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unverified and unverifiable.
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Four months later, I decided to speak up.
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I even decided to go to TV too.
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And I got letters from people who apologized,
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because they were attacking me,
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because their best friend had also assaulted,
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or the family had assaulted
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and they had all understood,
in the heat of the moment,
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that it shouldn\'t be done,
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that it was absurd.
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So this is the other evil role
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of fake news.
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It\'s the urgency.
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It\'s how fast
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a person can define
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and judge an image.
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There\'s a lot of study showing
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that the lie spreads faster than the truth.
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People share the lie more than the truth.
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And the reason for that is because the lie
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adapts more easily to political discourses,
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because it doesn\'t need to respect the facts.
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So it sticks in political discourse,
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I have an audience that is very divided,
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is very passionate about
their political convictions,
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they get these things that confirm
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what they already think
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and they hit the share button really fast,
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and the fake news spreads.
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I collected some news here.
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The idea is: I go to the population,
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for us to check what they know
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about fake news
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and try to identify
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which is true, which is false.
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Hey. How are you?
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How are you?
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I\'m Professor Peter.
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I\'m Professor Peter, how are you?
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Can I show you some news?
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\"City residents in Canada are shocked
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with the pink water coming out of the faucets.\"
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Do you think it\'s fake or true news?
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It\'s fake.
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It looks fake, I don\'t know.
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I think false.
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This one, for example, is real news.
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Oh! Don\'t believe it!
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When you get news,
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there are some simple steps for you to do
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for you to check if it is true or false news.
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\"Hot pineapple water
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kills cancer cells,
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according to Professor Chen Huiren,
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of the Beijing Army General Hospital.\"
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It looks like it\'s real.
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It looks like it\'s true.
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-Yes?
-It looks.
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First and simplest,
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is you to check some evidence of this news.
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Name of people, institutions, location.
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The second moment is to go after the sources.
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Who posted this?
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And then you can get to the context,
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how did it get to you,
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have you seen this in some other major media?
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This is news that comes from social media.
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Such important news,
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that we have something that fights cancer cells,
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we would see it in major newspapers, right?
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publishing.
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So this one is fake news.
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And then you arrive at the audience.
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To which public was this news directed?
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Is there a purpose behind this news?
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Any intention?
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Be an intention to harm someone,
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be a political intention.
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And, last but not least,
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language checking.
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If you have any errors in
the Portuguese language,
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if you have any kind of
editing on the image.
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You following these steps,
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for sure you will find out
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whether this is true or false news.
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-Sharing is very easy.
-Yes.
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We have to pay attention when sharing.
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It is true. That\'s right.
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Thanks.
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Thank you!
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Platforms are under a lot of pressure
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to answer this fake news problem
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and they hardened the combat a lot,
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avoiding acting as referee.
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Because we don\'t want a private company
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determine what is true and what is false,
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we also don\'t want the State to determine,
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because the state is a political actor.
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You don\'t want a government on duty
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to determine what is true or false.
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Basically, platforms have to
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identify these malicious actors
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and try to get them out for other violations
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of community rules,
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for example, algorithm manipulation,
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using fake accounts, that sort of thing.
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Still exist
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many things to work on,
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and i think i\'ll still need a lot of time
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to work, because
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I still take breaks.
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When I\'m talking about this subject.
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These are breaks that...
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that went...
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are pauses of embarrassment.
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To touch on a subject that is still so latent.
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But at the same time,
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the maximum exercise
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of the artist is to act.
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The artist cannot keep still.
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He will always be enraptured by creation.
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There\'s no way.
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Fake news can come
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to serious cases,
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like death, lynching,
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ruin a person\'s reputation,
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end a person\'s digital life.
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They have to change schools,
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have to change city.
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And it has affected adults
and children alike.
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It has become a social problem today.
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Just as we fight racism,
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violence against women, homophobia,
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we have to work with the students
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to fight fake news.
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Unfortunately, this prevention work
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and fighting fake news is
something very new still
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and need this literacy
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for this generation of digital natives.
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What has changed is knowing that fake news
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could be integrated into my work.
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I turned them all into dramaturgy
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to create a new project.
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That\'s the artist\'s job.
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Transform into art object
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what doesn\'t work.
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When I think of my son
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as a digital native and, above all,
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like a digital innocent,
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I really hope that
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he manages, in addition to preventing
himself from fake news,
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to know the ethical use of technologies.
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The chances of a fake news being shared
is 70% higher than a true news.
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62% of Brazilians can\'t recognize a fake news.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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