Politica e fake news

[Autom. eng. transl.] In the contemporary world, techniques and tools of social persuasion appear by now intrusive and unexpectedly widespread. However, we are not facing a new phenomenon. Politics - both in democratic regimes and (and above all) in authoritarian or totalitarian regimes - have always tried, often quite successfully, to 'control' the people. During the twentieth century, power with an incessant and persistent action attempted to shape the life of man. What has completely changed today is the political, economic and institutional environment in which social persuasion techniques are used. Therefore, these changes lead to critically rethinking both the ability to analyze problems and, in particular, the identification of possible solutions. After, for some decades, politics and economics chased the promises (unfulfilled) of a desired technological utopia, capable - at least in the intentions of its promoters - of carrying out a transformation of society and (even) of man, the In fact, both are in the position of having to defend themselves from the (more or less aggressive) advance of an unexpected socio-cultural dystopia.