Ethnonationalist and Imperial Nationalist News: Invictus Portucale and Notícias Viriato

This chapter analyses two different groupuscules. They are joint into one chapter, because they are not dedicated to metapolitics in general like the other groupuscules, but, rather, constitute a form of alternative news. These two groupuscules contribute to Portuguese metapolitics in a significant way, however, they do so in a more restricted spectrum: they act as news carriers for the ideologies of the other 5 groups studied in the book at hand. The groupuscules’ names are Invictus Portucale (Undefeated Portugal) and Notícias Viriato (Viriato News). The former can be described as newspaper for ethnonationalists and the latter one for Imperial Patriots. Invictus Portucale takes news from mainstream newspapers and posts them at its Facebook page, rewriting them in a way that emphasizes the ethnic origin of criminals. The worldframe of O Bom Europeu and the other ethnonationalist groupuscules is manifested through this news, whereby, Invictus Portucale uses a very rudimental style. Notícias Viriato, in turn, produces news whose core ideology is rooted in the contents shared by Nova Portugalidade and is more institutionalized than Invictus Portucale. It can be seen as the news representative of Nova Portugalidade.