Uma experiência em fact-checking nas eleições municipais de 2016 em Santa Maria, RS

Abstract

This experimental project aims to propose a fact-checking model adapted to the reality of the municipal elections in Santa Maria, RS, in 2016. As a journalistic model on the rise, based on verifying the veracity of the statements of candidates, politicians, personalities and entities, the fact-checking proposed here follows the statements made by the eight candidates for mayor of Santa Maria, between the months of July and September 2016, during the electoral period. In theoretical terms, this project recovers some concepts related to the process of investigation, makes a digression on current aspects of the journalistic market that in part allows the rise of fact-checking, and discusses aspects of this journalistic model, especially about its methods. In the end, it's noted that certain methodological requirements are limited by the difficulties of access to content, data and sources, which affects the scope of work.