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May 26, 2020 The 19 "Covid pandemic was at the center of a widespread online disinformation activity, in which state actors, structured actors (think tanks, stakeholders,
communication professionals , speculators and industrial groups with strong interest in the countries of origin), who intend to manipulate the internal political debate, influence the international geopolitical balance, inciting subversion of social order and destabilize public opinion about the spread of the infection and prevention and care. "

Heavy words against bad information coming from the Parliamentary Committee for the security of the Republic which, having taken note of the in-depth analysis carried out by Mr Borghi (Pd), "expresses concern about the use of techniques to make the news viral".

It is the same president of Copasir Raffaele Volpi to clarify what is expressed by the committee. Italy, he adds, has been "a target" of this campaign. So there is "concern about using viral techniques to make the news", "fake profiles, post facebook revival, foreign websites that spread in a coordinated manner on numerous platforms and misleading news account - detects Volpi - are just some of the forms disinformation phenomena attributable to the world of the web, aimed at creating information overload about the identification of vaccines, therapeutic remedies and effective diagnostic tools in the face of the Covid-19 infection ".

"The detected infodemic activity - continues the Copasir president - is framed in a geopolitical context in which the coronavirus represents the perfect stage that some autocratic regimes waited to show a supposed - and unproven - greater efficiency and capacity, compared to Western democracies, albeit with different postures on the idea of ​​global order, the main actors of the disinformation campaign have inserted this activity in a framework of parallelism, positioning Italy as a target ".

"The characteristics of the activity carried out, however - claims the League representative - have also been the subject of a verification activity by the European External Action Service (EU Diplomatic Agency), which has recorded the spread of fake news in English, Spanish, German and French in order to feed panic and create a climate of mistrust by hindering the official European communication of response to the epidemiological crisis ".

"In this context - underlines Volpi - international relations, far from being limited to institutional headquarters and official declarations, can also be affected by the action of a plurality of structured actors, who tend to support or discredit the state reputation not only through disinformation , but often with the spread of misleading, decontextualized or partial messages reaching the global public. Taking advantage of the extreme sensitivity of public opinion on the issue - he concludes - there is a tendency to stir up controversy against the European Union and the countries of the Euro Alliance- Atlantica ".