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.
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