The War of False News...

In the last post we have showed how it's possible with false news on the web to create a dangerous politic crisis that can degenerate in demonstration , but also in riot (yesterday in Italy a crazy has shot at two soldiers in front of Government Palace).

Honestly we can say about "false news" or fakes, the problem follows the human story, we remembered Orson Wells and his “War of the Worlds” on 1938, or the aria “The calumny is a little wind” , from “The Barber of Seville” by Gioacchino Rossini...

The calumny is a little wind,

a very gentle little breeze

which numbly, softly,

lightly, kindly,

begins to whisper.

Little by little, mildly,

in a low voice, hissing,

it goes flowing, it goes buzzing;

in people's ears

it enters deftly

and makes heads and brains

stun and blow.

Getting out from the mouth

the clamour grows:

it slowly strenghtens,

it already flies from one place to another.

It seems like the thunder, like the storm

that in the depht of the forest

go whistling, grumbling,

and makes your blood run cold.

In the end it spills over and blow up,

it spreads, it doubles

and provokes an explosion

like a cannon shot,

an earthquake, a rain storm,

a general tumult

which makes the air peal.

And the miserable one who is defamed,

degraded, trampled,

scourged by the public opinion

fortunately dies.

Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Networks and search engines are full of news without validation and “who says” is not less important than “what says”. We have sure many digital friends and someone of them publishes on his profile metric tons of link, pictures, news ; sometimes they are fun, nice, likeable, sometimes they are irritating, they spreads false news, fake, malware, but our friend believes in it, without to ask if it true or not, without to search more info, so he begins to think vaccinations are only a deceit of Pharmacy Industries or Elvis is alive. We don't talk about crazy people, because this people is our colleague, maybe our teacher or brother.

This is the scenario, Internet as media grows his power and people day by day is always more zoned out.

So our lives changes and it is more dependent on web news , maybe it's time to ask ourselves :

“how it's possible to validate news and info on the Web?”

We don't want censorship, but it's not possible to allow people not vaccinates their children because they read on the web the opinions of some Guru …

then … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22329178

Do you understand?

Ok, so much for that , it's time to find answers...

A solution in terms of It , probably is impossible... 

The best way is surely to educate , to teach people to ask the first and most important question :

“Who wrote this?”

Do you accept to be operated on your injured knee by a teacher of History? 

 Not, you demand to have a surgeon.

Why therefore people accepts an opinion about medicine by “someone” and believe it?

Why therefore people accepts an opinion about Politics by “someone” and believe it?

A few years ago it was hard to find info, we needed to read many books, to pass long time to study or in a Library, and books were honest, we knew authors.

Books cost , a publisher checked the Curriculum Vitae of an author, it was not enough to write few words, there was necessity of arguments, documents, proofs and evidences.

Today it's enough to have many "like" , it's a risk, it's a danger, because ideas and words can kill.