O Democracia em Xeque Institute (DX) reconstructed the timeline of the narratives that surrounded the threats against Brazilian democracy and that culminated in the coup attempt on January 8, 2023. DX gathered posts and statements on social networks and media outlets,
The timeline reveals in a didactic way how the coup escalated in 2022. “More than a simple spontaneous act, the 8th of January is the result of systematic attacks on the TSE and the fairness of the electoral process, of threats of non-acceptance of the result , the acts of September 7, 2021 and 2022 – permeated with anti-democratic slogans, symbols and flags – and the calls for “war” as a way of encouraging anti-democratic acts”, concludes the institute, created last year.
According to the researchers, it is possible to attest to a narrative construction that, seen in retrospect, appears to be linked and with a clear purpose: to denounce supposed electoral fraud by questioning the rules of the democratic game, electoral results and encouraging hate speech. and political radicalization and insurgency.
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