Abstract:
The production of fake news, which aims to disseminate untraceable information, is a standard component in the political game. In this sense, the deliberate attempt to construct lies about public affairs, as a form of misrepresenting reality, is carried out by theorists such as Paul Rassinier and Marco Antônio Villa, whose works are inscribed within the revisionist movement. Our proposal here is to formulate, in political terms, what is called revisionism and show how it is related to the dangers of deliberate lying from Hannah Arendt’s perspective. Revisionism should be understood as a movement for the promotion and dissemination of deliberate lies, which has the purpose of adulterating the world, denying, for example, the existence of historical facts such as the Holocaust and the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship. We will show in this article that one of the antidotes capable of mitigating the effects of deliberate lying is factual truth, which, because it is constructed by plural testimony, has a political nature. It ensures that the world is not threatened in its constitutive structures, that is, that we should not alter the actions that had occur in it and the memories of these actions should not be corrupted.
Keywords:
Revisionism; Deliberate Lie; Factual Truth; World; Hannah Arendt