IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Data and Lies

vitaleBy Guido Vitale

Recently I attended, along with fellow journalist Fiona Diwan of the “Bollettino della Comunità ebraica di Milano” (the newsletter of the Jewish Community of Milan), a course organized by the Professional Association of Italian Journalists. It was dedicated to the issues of privacy and the respect of personal identity in online publications and there has been a speech by Marco Pratellesi, who manages the online publications of the weekly L’Espresso. He raised the problem of Internet traffic data, which is sometimes falsified or artificially inflated by Italian news websites. It is a major issue, over which the Italian Jewish world should exercise a close supervision.