Brazilian denialism: the impacts of information disorder on the Infodemic phenomenon in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has shed light on a series of social issues. Among them, the imminent feeling of fear in the world population, due to the unprecedented nature of the health crisis; the exponential advance of the disease amid the inequalities imposed by the neoliberal economy; and the central object of this study: the rise of the infodemic phenomenon, characterized by the exacerbated flow of information (true, false, incomplete or taken out of context). In view of this, this article is a theoretical reflection of a basic and exploratory nature, with a bibliographical outline and a qualitative approach regarding the dissemination of misinformation, as an element of the disinfodemic, produced by Jair Bolsonaro's administration, during the pandemic in Brazil. This makes it possible to identify strategies of informational disorder in the service of anti-democratic political projects, which also enables an alert to information and ideology as possible Social Determinants of Health.