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Italy opens debate on setting up anti-disinfo agency
Senator Borghi of Parliament’s Intel Committee is pitching an ad-hoc apparatus to combat foreign disinformation (especially of the Russian variety) and influence operations designed to condition the population. Here’s how it would work
Two experts, Professor Andrea Vernata and researcher Matteo Pugliese (who discovered the recent wave of Russian fabricated content targeting European users) joined the press conference where the senator unveiled the bill. In an interview to our sister website, Senator Borghi remarked on the need to equip the country with tools to protect itself from such risks “in the knowledge that disinformation is a piece of a hybrid war, fought on various levels and with various instruments that are only apparently unrelated to each other.” “The tool must allow the good money to drive out the bad, as the latter [that fuels disinformation] has lower costs and more opportunities than traditional journalism.” Flagging the hostile diffusion of fake news is entirely consistent with respecting the tenets of freedom of information, he argued.
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