Fake news and politics in Italy
The diffusion of fake news has allowed the public debate to focus on two spe- cific topics: the uncontrollability of the web and the production of grassroots information, but also the transformations due to the advent of an ever more “disintermediated” jour- nalism. If, on the one hand, new production routines require publishing companies to use automatisms in packaging and diffusion of news; on the other hand, users – tied to the digital more than to the “paper” medium – are not able to distinguish “true” from “false” news.