The last semester of 2021 has been dramatic in terms of humanitarian crises. Countries like Lebanon, Afghanistan, Algeria, Haiti, Turkey, Greece and Palestine have been struggling with several different issues that are jeopardizing the security of their citizens but the coverage of these events is being systematically under- or over-reported depending on the countries where the information is coming from (e.g. western/eastern countries, democracies/autocracies, etc.) which ultimately shapes our understanding of these incidents (1). In democracies, although we typically see a higher degree of media freedom when it comes to government influence, it is also possible to observe a set
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Fake news vs. democracy
Rumors, gossips, and falsehoods have always existed: do you remember when a very distant relative told your mother that he had seen you play hooky and it was not true? Or when your neighbors rumored that you used to smoke just because they had seen you hang out with a group of friends who used to smoke? So, in our daily life “fake news” – that in a general meaning are news that are not real, true – have always existed and always caused trouble at school, with our relatives or among friends; by the way, recently, fake news – “stories