Anti-feminist movements and disinformation

an analysis of the speeches promoted on Instagram

Abstract

The new informational context evidenced by the ease in disseminating information and the exacerbated use of social networks, such as Instagram, raises questions related to the veracity and reliability of the data passed on by users on these platforms. Thus, the term disinformation has been frequently debated by researchers of information science, and it raises an alert for the propensity of the emergence of biased or untrue information in social media. Following this bias and assuming that the feminist movement is the main tool in the fight for respect and equality of rights between genders, it is determined that the critical competence in information is the main resource for collective awareness, reflection and debate on this topic in society. Therefore, the objective of this study is to clarify how disinformation can be massively propagated on Instagram by oppositional social movements, in the case of this research, antifeminism, which aims to contradict and mock the feminist movement. The publications to be analyzed will be extracted from posts made on the platform, and the methods used will be a triad of analysis of social networks, bibliographic and documentary research, characterizing this research as qualitative in nature. The importance of debating the themes to be addressed in this research is related to the imminent need to build an egalitarian society at a sociocultural and informational level.