Disinformation, post-truth, polarization and racism on Twitter: analysis of Vox's discourse on migration during the Andalusian election campaign (2022)

This paper aims to analyse the representations and discourses that the extreme right-wing party Vox maintained during the campaign for the Andalusian elections of 19J-2022 on migration on the social network Twitter, and the impact that their publications had on the users of this network. To this end, the activity of the official accounts of the party in Andalusia and of its candidate for the elections, M. Olona, was observed during the duration of the campaign. The methodology was based on a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the party's publications, and the monitoring of these to find out about the level of engagement with the public. The results of the research point to a residual discursive space dedicated during the electoral campaign to the issues considered. Despite this, an extreme and radical problematisation of the phenomenon of migration was observed, using disinformation; and a denial of the problem of racism, through various discursive strategies in line with what we can identify as post-truth. The paper ends with some concluding notes on the normalisation of racist discourse and its relationship with disinformation in our society.