Formiche: All the risks of Misinformation. From AI to Impacts on Elections

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“Democracies must build an increasingly stronger immune system to resist forces that attack democratic values, including by using the weapon of disinformation. This is the theme at the center of the conference Definancing disinformation, promoted by the Italian Atlantic Committee and the Balkan free media initiative..”

“In 2023 alone there were nearly five hundred million fake accounts removed globally. In Italy alone, over seven million contents were reported as fake news, and 45 thousand were removed because they violated the standards of the platforms on which they appeared…

We find ourselves in a true "infodemic", recorded Antoinette Nikolova of the Balkan free media initiative, in which "news circulates at great speed, like viruses, and forces that want to influence our opinions for their own interest take advantage of it, which is not that of democratic societies".”