34.7% of Italians think climate alarm is excessive

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 26 - Some 34.7% of Italians believe there is excessive alarm about climate change, and 25. 5% say that the floods that devastated Emilia Romagna and parts of Tuscany and the Marche in May are the most effective response to claims of progressive desertification, according to the Ital Communications-Censis report 'Disinformation and fake news in Italy' released on Wednesday.
    The report also showed that 16.2% of the overall population denies that climate change exists, with the percentage rising to 18.3% among the elderly and to 18.2% among the less educated.
    More generally, 76.5% of Italians believe that fake news is becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to identify, 20.2% believe they do not have the skills to recognise it and 61.1% believe they are only partly equipped, according to the report.
    However, 29.7% of the population believe that fake news doesn't exist but rather that true information is passed off as fake in an act of deliberate censorship by outlets. (ANSA).