CENSIS, OECD and a lesson from the past to counter misinformation and promote the well-being of democracy

Authors

  • Maria Costantin Publicist journalist
  • Fulvio Oscar Benussi Italian Digital Revolution Foundation

Keywords:

CENSIS, disinformation, democracy, wellbeing

Abstract

Our permeability to fake news represents a real emergence, which is bound to worsen with the advent of artificial intelligence (hereafter A.I.). Democracy is at risk of being ‘hacked’ by the rapid spread of false or misleading information, often conveyed by disinformation campaigns by domestic or foreign actors that create confusion, exacerbate polarisation, distort public policy debates, deteriorate citizens' trust in institutions and undermine the well-being of democracy.

Author Biography

Fulvio Oscar Benussi, Italian Digital Revolution Foundation

Publicist, registered as a journalist since 2000, author of articles published in Aggiornamenti sociali, ForumPA etc. Trainer in courses for school managers, in-school teachers and workers in reconversion. Author of contributions on good practices realised in secondary schools (Aracne editrice: Erickson: Edizioni Junior: European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences; World Journal on Educational Technology). Speaker of school-based practices with talks at conferences: Association for Humanistic Informatics and Digital Culture-2021: International Teacher Education Conference-2017: Harvard University campus, Cambridge Ma. USA: WCLTA 2015. World Conference on Learning. Teaching and Educational Leadership. Descartes University Paris, France; conferences organised by the Universities of Modena. Turin and Bologna.

References

CENSIS. (2024). 19° rapporto sulla comunicazione: Il vero e il falso (p. 18).

OECD (2024). Facts not fakes: Tackling disinformation, strengthening information integrity. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/d909ff7a-en.

Pomerantsev, P. (2024). How to win an information war (pp. 222- 223). CPI Group (UK).

Published

2024-12-02

How to Cite

Costantin, M., & Benussi, F. O. (2024). CENSIS, OECD and a lesson from the past to counter misinformation and promote the well-being of democracy. Community Notebook. People, Education and Welfare in the Society 5.0, 1(3), 51–57. Retrieved from https://www.quadernidicomunita.it/index.php/qdc/article/view/335

Issue

No. 3 (2024): Human Flourishing for wellbeing in society, communities and organizations

Section

Empowerment Column

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