The informational situation brought by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Brazil, in order to explore
and contribute to the discussions around the Information Literacy and Archival Science,
especially in the context of informational phenomena in the Archival context - a moment marked
by the informational avalanche that, at times, resulted in misinformation - fostered in Brazil by
the federal government - it is an opportune moment to carry out the research. The general
objective of the research is to understand the relationship of official records, produced by the
Brazilian federal government, configured as information / archival document, during the period
of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which resulted in a process of disinformation, and to know the
role of Archival Science and Information Literacy in this context. The specific objectives are:
to list official documents that contributed negatively to the prevention and control of the
pandemic; false or taken out of context information disseminated by the media in Brazil; and
understand how Information Literacy skills are essential to mitigate the infodemic. Thus, a
qualitative approach research was carried out, of a basic nature to provide a new contribution
to researches involving Archival Science and Information Literacy, using bibliographic and
documentary research procedures, in the scope of theory and official documents and with
exploratory objectives, aiming at understand the informational situation in Brazil with the
pandemic, being material for further research. Two documents of national validity and with
orientation contrary to internationally recommended prevention measures were selected,
proving that the speech presented worsened the pandemic in Brazil.
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