| Summary: | In an interview with Reciis, Ana Regina Rêgo addresses the issue of disinformation in contemporary society, the changes in the regimes of truth, the role played by social media platforms and the importance of dialog and networking to fight false information. Building on the studies of José Correia Leite, Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, she discusses the idea of intentional construction of ignorance and the false information market, topics she studied during her postdoctorate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Ana Regina Rêgo is an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Piauí (PPGCOM/UFPI), creator of the National Network to Fight disinformation (RNCd) and past president of the Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Associations in the Field of Communication (Socicom).
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