Long Abstract
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The 2022 presidential elections in Brazil were marked not only by an unprecedented political polarization but also by a war of disinformative narratives. False images stand at the core of these narratives and became part of a political strategy in a fight between the so called “digital militia” and “hate machine” of the former president Jair Bolsonaro and the professional marketing campaign and disinformation counter-strategies of Luis Ignacio Lula´s campaign. The research is focusing on an online and offline research on false images, as part of a postdoctoral research inside the ERC project Visual Trust, Reliability, accountability and forgery in religious, scientific and social images, PI Roger Canals, developed at the University of Barcelona. The investigation is following the general lines of the project that research images trough images and aims developing multiple ways of anthropological writing both in writing and audio-visually. The proposed paper reflects on these research founding and questions the employment of audio-visual in a multimodal context of disinformative digital images.
