Recently the theme fake news has become a hot topic, especially in the period of political elections: Facebook and Twitter are under accusation, which over the years have proved to be perfect sounding boards for false news. With the aim of obtaining easy views through the publication of sensational news, publishers publish hoaxes aiming to earn on views through the advertisements on the pages. And in some cases, fake news has had the specific task of destabilizing political life.
In order to put the next election campaign away from the fake news, the agents of the State Police Commissioner Online, department of the deserving National Center for Anti-Crime Informatics, took to the field. Between the new tools put in place to deal with the spread of false news there is a new portal through which every citizen will have the opportunity to report a hoax in order to activate the mechanisms of protection by the Postal Police. On the site www.commissariatodips.it since yesterday a special has been made available to citizens Red Button for the instant reporting of fake news, which does not require the user to have special registration procedures. With the new reporting system, just click on a virtual button on the police station's website to report news that looks like hoaxes, news of which the agents will verify the truthfulness.
The new operational protocol to combat the spread of fake news was inaugurated by the Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti, who on the occasion did not fail to underline the important dangers of spreading fake news. In this regard the director of the Postal Nunzia Ciardi also intervened “Disinformation has always existed, but the web offers enormous potential that amplify this aspect. We just want to make a service that already exists more efficient and be closer to the citizens. "
In short, an additional weapon in the fight against online hoaxes that feed on disinformation and the lack of an actual fact checking on the news circulating on the net. An additional tool in an increasingly vast ocean, a struggle that would first of all require a re-education of the user to verify the facts and deepen the arguments, a practice increasingly disused thanks to the immediacy of the network, which has inevitably made us all more lazy.