Political Sociology of Law and Digital Society: Fake News in Brazil

The Political Sociology of Law provides us with the critical epistemological tools necessary to understand the fake news phenomenon in digital society, allowing us to propose an initial question: can law and justice, through regulation, control the massive impact of fake news in the socio-political field? Our core thesis sustains that artificial intelligence, by its rhizomic networks, exponentially generates the conditions for the massification of disinformation, henceforth projected on glocal scales. The digital society, based on technological acceleration and alienation from the social world leads to a political de-subjectification process and a lack of legal consciousness. We argue on the basis of five essential premises, as following: (1) Man, mendax ab initio; (2) With the algorithmic colonization of politics, the digital society installs the post-truth society; (3) Disinformation deconstructs the myth of algorithmic neutrality; (4) Digital order leads to the disorder of the rule of law: (5) Global problems require global and local solutions: case study on Law and Justice facing fake news in Brazil. In this context, we underline the emerging of five perverse effects: (1) The effect of digital disorder; (2) The effect of social fracture; (3) The effect of cognitive confusion; (4) The effect of political dissent; and (5) The effect of the exception on rule of law.