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Fake news e post verità nella società dell'algoritmo

2021

The essay has as its object fake news and excess of pieces of information with particular attention to the pandemic emergency we are currently living: Covid‐19. After a careful consideration about what fake news actually are, the paper analyzes the pitfalls concerning the communication through virtual technologies, where social networks let the news reach the user only if they pass some requirements, in order to give the user a personalized experience of being informed. As a result, the profiling process traps the user in a cage, which is a paradox, because the internet it’s literally supposed to be without borders and barriers. The current crisis caused by the global pandemic has brought t…