The Mimicry of the Journalistic Narrative in the Disinformation of Content Reviewed by Coletivo Bereia

This article proposes an analysis of the narrative structure of the disinformation contents that circulated in religious web portals between August and October 2022, period between the beginning of the electoral campaign and the presidential elections in Brazil. The objective is to understand how the journalistic practice is mimicked in the disinformation content, by using concepts of disinformation, journalistic narrative and the Christian religion background in Brazil. Therefore, a methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques of content analysis are used in order to analyze these publications, which are collected from research carried out by Coletivo Bereia, an agency that verifies the circulating contents in media that publish information with a religious bias. As a result, we found evidence indicating that web portals whose editorial positioning is focused on the religious topic, use journalistic narrative strategies to communicate content that is not always referenced to the facts, in order to give a sense of veracity to such news.