Storia, caos informativo e postverità: tra propaganda sovranista e uso pubblico della storia

Abstract

We are facing more and more frequently historical informations that does not reflect historians’ reconstructions, or that just get close to them. This kind of informations, along with others concerning current affairs, or scientific discoveries, contribute to plump a context of featured by «information disorder». Why are they spread? What is the purpose of those who disseminate this type of informations? Is «information disorder» a characteristic feature of our age or, during the twentieth century, such phenomena are identifiable? I will try to answer these questions in this article.

Keywords

• confusione informativa
• postverità
• propaganda
• sovranismo
• uso pubblico della storia.
• information disorder
• post-truth
• public use of history
• sovereignism.