According to the third Ital Communications-Censis Report "Disinformation and fake news in Italy. The information system to the test of Artificial Intelligence", presented in Rome at the Senate, the need for information, especially online, is growing. Today about 47 million Italians, 93.3 percent of the total, routinely get information from at least one of the available sources,83.5 percent on the web and 74.1 percent in traditional media. On the opposite side, there are about 3.3 million (6.7% of the total) individuals who have given up having timely information about what is happening, while 700,000 Italians do not inform themselves at all. 76.5 percent of Italians believe that fake news is increasingly sophisticated and difficult to discover, 20.2 percent believe they lack the skills to recognize it, and 61.1 percent believe they have only some of it. But there are also the deniers: 29.7 percent of the population thinks that we should not talk about fake news, but about real news that is deliberately censored from the official schedules that is then passed off as fake. Global warming is a topic that is talked about a lot and in a confusing way, fueling misinformation, catastrophism and even denialism. 34.7 percent of Italians believe that there is excessive alarmism about climate change, and 25.5 percent believe that this year's flood is the most effective response to those who claim that we are progressively moving toward desertification. Deniers, who are convinced that climate change does not exist, are 16.2% of the population.
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