Lies Detector
Detector de Mentiras (lit. Lies Detector) was an initiative launched in 2016 by the NGO for political activism "Meu Rio" during polls for the Mayor?s Office in Rio de Janeiro. Together with other fact-checking initiatives, a group of experts and volunteers, "Detector de Mentiras" performed a live fact-checking during poll debates for the first and second rounds. During the live debates, the team would post on Facebook and Twitter an evaluation of traceable affirmations made by candidates as being "true", "false", "imprecise", "unreliable" (enrolação) and "achievable promises". Citizens could also comment on the posts and share.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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