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André Ventura uses disinformation “to create chaos and informational disorder in society and to manipulate the electorate”.

How the logic of extremes is eroding democratic debate.

Social media are the breeding ground, but there is a relationship of dependence between the media and the leader of Chega that helps explain the politician’s success as much as it helps explain the deterioration of debate in democracies. Ventura, who appears to his voters as the only person who speaks the truths that must be told, lies with alarming ease, manipulates without any burden on his conscience, and defends freedom of expression only for himself.
