If you type “fake news” into Google right now, not only does the title of the new album by the Nuclear Tactical Penguins appear, which will be released on December 2nd. It also turns out that every day there are at least two or three controversies about events that have just happened. Now we talk about fake news compared to: a post from the Russian Embassy showing the photo of an Italian armored car destroyed in Ukraine and money spent (badly) by Italy for the war. Or for the amnesty for the building abuses of Ischia, which never happened. Or for the hoax restrictions of Elon Musk’s new Twitter. And always, as for years, of the fourth dose of the anti-Covid vaccine as risky to health or not.
How to orient yourself to understand, even before the debunkers, if a piece of news is true or false? To exercise will start on Monday, December 5 a free course for distinguish fake news from real news. It is curated by Massimo Polidoro, scientific communicator expert in the psychology of the unusual and national secretary of CICAP, the Italian Committee for the control of pseudoscience claims, which explains: «Not only is it important to know the topic in question, for example the health situation during the pandemic, but it is also necessary to understand how information is produced and disseminated and the news. Because of this, we can’t expect someone else to fix the problems for us: everyone must work to develop critical skillswhich lead to asking the right questions and making us more aware and capable citizens”.
Polidoro, who is considered the right arm and heir of the historic president of Cicap, Piero Angela, who recently passed away, has published over 60 books – the latest is Brilliant (Feltrinelli) and on TV has always had a fixed space a superquarks on Rai Uno, where he explained the psychology of false mysteries and nonsense. Now the expert offers a unique possibility: the online course How to recognize and fight fake news, that predicts three appointments in which not only will light be shed on the mechanisms that make the fake news viral and dangerous but you will also discover how to recognize them and you will learn to defuse them, developing a psychological resistance against manipulations. The first lesson analyzes the because we believe in fake news, and will be available from Monday 5 December; the second explains how to recognize hoaxes, from Wednesday 7; and the third teaches how develop techniques to defuse the liesfrom Saturday 10. To participate, just register for free by Saturday 10 December to this site: massimopolidorostudio.com/fakenews.
Source: Vanity Fair
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