Democracy Under Attack: Social Media and Disinformation in Brazilian Elections

Marisa von Bülow is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Author of several books and articles on digital activism, social movements, and transnational civil society networks, among them Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). Since 2024, she is the Director of the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasilia.

Leonardo Avritzer was Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and is currently a professor at Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP) in Brasilia, Brazil. He is the author of several books and articles on participation, civil society, and democracy. He co-edited the book Eleições 2022 e a Reconstrução da Democracia no Brasil (＂The 2022 election and the reconstruction of democracy in Brazil＂) (Autêntica, 2023). Avritzer is the coordinator of the Institute of Democracy and the Democratization of Communications, which brings together researchers from four Brazilian institutions and three international ones.

Eliara Santana is a journalist and holds a PhD in Linguistic Studies. She was an Associate Researcher of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and Science History (CLE) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She is the author of Jornal Nacional, um Ator Político em Cena (＂Jornal Nacional - a political actor on the scene＂) (Meraki, 2022) and many articles on media literacy, communication and politics, and disinformation.