Climate change, for 34.7% of Italians there is too much alarmism.Fake news is truth censored for 29.7% - The survey

This is what emerges from the latest Censis report «The information system put to the test of Artificial Intelligence»

«34.7% of Italians are convinced that there is excessive alarmism about climate change».This is what emerges from the latest report Ital Communications-Censis:the information system put to the test of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Socio-Economic Research, entitled «Disinformation and fake news in Italy».Published the day after the storm that hit Lombardy while Sicily continues to fight fires, the report shows how deniers - those who are convinced that climate change does not exist - represent 16.2% of the population.Percentage that rises to 18.3% among the oldest and 18.2% among the least educated.

For 76.5% Italians, it is difficult to discover fake news 

What is increasing among Italians is the fear of not being able to recognize false information.In fact, 76.5% believe that fake news is increasingly difficult to discover, 20.2% are convinced that they do not have the tools and skills to recognize them and 61.1% are convinced that they have only some of them.The Censis report also shows how 29.7% of the population denies the very existence of hoaxes and thinks that we shouldn't talk about fake news, but of real news that is deliberately censored by the schedules which then pass it off as false.

For 75.1% Italians, AI in information creates unknowns

On artificial intelligence, however, 75.1% of Italians believe that withupgrading technological towards Artificial Intelligence it will be increasingly difficult to control the quality of information.While for 58.9%, AI can become a tool to support communication professionals.More generally, a high percentage of Italians - 85.8% - are afraid of being unprepared in the face of a technological change, such as AI, which will most likely affect (again) their way of living, studying , work, produce and access information.For this reason, he believes that there is a need to make citizens more aware of both the advantages and the limits of the use of artificial intelligence.

For 93.3% Italians they usually get information from at least one source

47 million Italians, 93.3%.It is the total number of people who regularly obtain information (at least weekly) from at least one of the available sources.Which?83.5% use the web;74.1% traditional media.On the other hand, there are 3 million 300 thousand (6.7%) individuals who give up having timely information on what is happening.700 thousand, those who do not inform themselves at all.The research shows how awareness of the devastating effects of disinformation has grown, which can be stemmed by communication professionals accredited as authoritative sources and guarantors of the reliability and quality of news.To distinguish good/bad information, precise skills on new technologies are needed:64.3% of Italians use a mix of traditional and online information sources.9.9% rely only on traditional media and 19.2% (around 10 million Italians) on online sources.56.7% of Italians are convinced that, faced with the information disorder that characterizes the current information landscape, it is legitimate to turn to the informal sources you trust most.