New York Review of Books (newsletter)February 25, 2023 Vanessa Barbara, interviewed by Willa Glickman This article is part of a regular series of conversations with the Review’s contributors; read past ones here and sign up for our e-mail newsletter to get them delivered to your inbox each week. “The following is a description of a video that I did not watch,” […]
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Brazil at the Crossroads
Posted: 18th março 2023 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York Review of BooksTags: Amazon rainforest, Brazil, Consuelo Dieguez, democracy, elections, Fábio Victor, fake news, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, military, military dictatorship, Oliver Stuenkel, redemocratization, right-wing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, The Chaos Machine
Lula’s election comes as a relief to many Brazilians, but in this historically violent and unequal country, a void in the democratic field endures. New York Review of BooksFebruary 23, 2023 issue by Vanessa Barbara A truism for our times: a story doesn’t need to be factual to go viral. In June 2020, not long […]
Eu segui alguns grupos brasileiros de direita no Telegram. Encontrei uma maré de insanidade. (trad.)
Posted: 5th maio 2022 by Vanessa Barbara in TraduçõesTags: eleições, Facebook, fake news, Jair Bolsonaro, redes sociais, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp
The New York Times4 de maio de 2022 por Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Read in English | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brasil — Quando Elon Musk fechou um acordo para comprar o Twitter, os grupos brasileiros de direita no Telegram foram à loucura. Ali estava, enfim, um poderoso defensor da liberdade de expressão. Mais […]
Miracle Cures and Magnetic People. Brazil’s Fake News Is Utterly Bizarre.
Posted: 8th julho 2021 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, fake news, hydroxychloroquine, Jair Bolsonaro, vaccination
The New York TimesJuly 5, 2021 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Hydroxychloroquine is not effective against Covid-19. No. Definitely not. But Brazilians still aren’t sure. After all, just the other day a friend’s cousin forwarded a headline on WhatsApp claiming that all I.C.U. beds in the city of Miracatu […]
