The social communications regulator said the use of graphics similar to Público and Renascença in fake news social media posts by Chega President André Ventura “may constitute an act of disinformation.”
According to the findings of the Social Communications Regulatory Authority (ERC), which Lusa had access to this Friday, the manipulation of images and content was aimed at “making the messages” Ventura shares on social networks credible, “taking advantage of the immediacy with which content consumed on social networks” and encourages the public to associate information with the image of famous media.
“The publication by André Ventura of images imitating Público and Rádio Renascença may constitute an act of disinformation,” can be read in the reasoning of the ERC, which, although it admitted that it does not have direct powers to spread disinformation, emphasized that it “cannot fail to warn against this kind of procedure.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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