The post-truth challenge: the impact of digital militias and disinformation on police intelligence activities and perspectives for critical information curation
The post-truth challenge: the impact of digital militias and disinformation on police intelligence activities and perspectives for critical information curation
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Intelligence-Driven Policing. Digital Militias. Disinformation. Counterintelligence.Abstract
This article analyzes the operational and analytical impacts that digital militias and systematic disinformation impose on police intelligence agencies in Brazil, contextualizing this contemporary threat within the paradigm of intelligence-led policing. Starting from the origins and theoretical model of this police approach, the study problematizes how organized disinformation has ceased to be mere opinion and has become a tool for institutional destabilization and obstruction of justice, demanding an adaptation of intelligence processes. Using the methodology of bibliographic review and document analysis, based on official doctrines, specialized international literature, and emblematic cases, the work explores the convergence between the traditional model of interpreting the criminal environment and the need to filter a hostile informational ecosystem. It concludes that modern police intelligence must evolve into a practice of critical information curation, integrating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques, counterintelligence, strategic communication, and interinstitutional cooperation to protect the decision-making process and the democratic rule of law itself against digital cognitive warfare.
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