Admirável mundo novo da ética da informação 2.0 em tempos de fake news

Abstract

This article presents some manifestations of fake news in their articulations with information ethics 2.0 in the contemporary age. It discusses the mission of the ideology of information ethics 2.0 as the guiding and motivating locus of common and consensually accepted ethical repertoires in the field of information, or, in contrast, as the locus of personalist and individually constituted ethical repertoires, as an ideology of ethics of information 2.0 set up in time for fake news. It highlights social pathologies of information from a context marked by this latest ethical platform, presenting, after analysis of bibliographic data, antidotes and initiatives aimed at valuing information ethics 2.0 versus fake news. In methodological terms, regarding the formalistic demands, the study is based on text by V. G. Rodríguez, entitled “O ensaio como tese”, drawing on the Habermasian hermeneutics and founded on the qualitative method. It infers that the ideological project underlying the advancement of fake news threatens the meaning of information ethics 2.0 within the social imaginary. Thus, it is essential to face them as a social phenomenon. To this end, information workers, other news specialists, government, and policymakers must strengthen more solid designs toward in