The “MINISTRY OF TRUTH” BEHIND 08.01.2023: The relationship between George Orwell's 1984 and the Bolsonaro government's fake news

Authors

  • Jorge Alberto Mendes Serejo Centro Universitário UNDB
  • Bruna Louise Pontes Oliveira Lima

Keywords:

Law and Literature; Bolsonaro; Ministry of Truth; George Orwell; Fake News.

Abstract

This paper aims to draw a parallel between the Ministry of Truth – state body responsible for rewriting history in the novel “1984” – and the Bolsonaro government's fake news factory in order to understand how disinformation culminated in the anti-democratic act of January 8, 2023. To accomplish this, an analysis will be conducted on how George Orwell's novel "1984" serves as a foundation for a critical analysis of law. Next, a relationship will be established between the Ministry of Truth and the Bolsonaro government's fake news factory. Finally, it will be studied how this fake news factory contributed to the anti-democratic acts that occurred on January 8, 2023, clarifying how this fact relates to the Ministry of Truth and the ongoing wars in the universe of "1984". In order to achieve these objectives, this theoretical research, which has a basic nature and qualifies as exploratory, promotes a bibliographic review procedure of authors related to law and literature, fake news, and Bolsonarism, namely Germano Schwartz (2006), Steve Levitsky (2018), and Cesar Calejon (2021).

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Author Biographies

Jorge Alberto Mendes Serejo, Centro Universitário UNDB

Mestre em direito e instituições do sistema de justiça pela Universidade Federal
do Maranhão. Professor da Universidade Federal do Maranhão e do Centro
Universitário UNDB. Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Direitos
Humanos e Literatura da UNDB.

Bruna Louise Pontes Oliveira Lima

Bacharel em Direito pelo Centro Universitário UNDB. Integrante do Grupo de
Pesquisa e Extensão em Direitos Humanos e Literatura da UNDB.

Published

2023-08-31

How to Cite

MENDES SEREJO, J. A.; LIMA, B. L. P. O. The “MINISTRY OF TRUTH” BEHIND 08.01.2023: The relationship between George Orwell’s 1984 and the Bolsonaro government’s fake news: . Revista do Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região, [S. l.], v. 35, n. 2, p. 240–265, 2023. Disponível em: https://revista.trf1.jus.br/trf1/article/view/491. Acesso em: 2 jul. 2024.