Fake news includes religious racism. When contacted, Meta did not comment on the case.
O Big Brother Brasil it could even be a reality showbut what is going viral on social media are the fake news made about the program. In the period from January 21st to 27th, searches for an alleged incorporation and expulsion of participant Lucas Luigi took off in the Google. However, for those who follow the program, they realized that this was fake news.
Despite being an event that could easily be confirmed as false, a part of the public ended up being impacted by this rain of misinformation that went viral on the internet. YouTube eInstagram.
A Globo and social networks shared that they have tools to prevent false information from being easily spread, but their efforts were not enough to prevent several profiles from sharing this type of content.
It is worth highlighting that, in addition to the fake newssome profiles practiced religious racism against the participant of the reality showas was the case with a YouTube channel with more than 270,000 subscribers, which published a video titled “Tadeu hates Luigi and says he is prohibited from doing macumba if he doesn’t get expelled”.
To attract the attention of Internet users, the cover of the video showed an image of Lucas in amazement inside the confessional. This type of strategy is known as clickbait, and is very common among content creators who want to capture as many clicks as possible with an impactful title, but the content itself is shallow or, as in this case, false.
Thanks to this fake news, internet searches for Who was expelled from BBB 24 today this Tuesday (30) had a spike of more than 600% in searches last week. They were boosted by several pages on Instagram, including one with more than 520 thousand followers.
In this sense, the company Metaowner of Instagram, was approached by Notcias da TV to analyze the videos, but she did not respond to the portal’s contact.
Meanwhile, when contacted, Globo released an official note about the case.
According to the broadcaster: “Globo is constantly attentive to the content that circulates on its programs and works with different mechanisms to combat fake news, as well as using tools that aim to preserve the copyright of its content. Furthermore, we would like to reinforce that official information about all programs on its schedule is made available by Globo on its official profiles and on the Gshow website.
YouTube also shared a similar stance.
According to the video platform: On YouTube, all users must follow the Community Guidelines. We have developed a robust set of policies and systems to give visibility to trusted content and reduce the spread of misleading information. A user who believes they have found content on YouTube that does not comply with our policies can file a report and our team will analyze the material.
*With information from Notcias da TV
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