The Brazilian political and social scenario is a fertile ground for spreading false information on socio-environmental issues. Linked to this, the population's waning trust in traditional media is driven by a systematically produced wave of disinformation. This rupture threatens, among other things, the dialogue needed to overcome the challenges of the climate emergency. Our objective is to map and analyze the Brazilian media ecosystem in the digital environment, seeking to interpret the main forms of attack on socio-environmental guidelines.

 

The digital ecosystem reflects an overvaluing of economic productivity, in which agribusiness is part of a developmental political discourse, proposed as a central solution to Brazil's socio-environmental problems. Meanwhile, the impact of fires, forest devastation, destruction of biomes, violence against indigenous peoples and the impact of mining on Indigenous Lands are ignored. On networks, automated accounts and other computational propaganda strategies are commonly used to boost the visibility of anti-environmentalist agendas. Thus, there is a prominence of conspiratorial narratives that argue that climate change and the socio-environmental crisis are political manipulation strategies, putting at risk the country's sovereignty over its natural resources.

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