Similar conference, with several speakers, was held on 24 November in Verona on the initiative of’ Citizens' association against mafias and corruption, which Matteo Castagna spoke about. Video YouTube.
Understanding when news has been falsified to manipulate public opinion is of fundamental importance, today more than ever. 
The book “The sorcerers of the news” by RAI president Marcello Foa it is a real work that clarifies, like few others, how the world of information really works, bringing to light his hidden and dark side.
Friday 11 January at 20.30 will be held in Turin at the headquarters of Space One a meeting with the RAI President, Marcello Foa and the journalist Enrica Perucchietti:
Fake News and media credibility: between information and manipulation
What are the techniques for orienting public opinion?
Because the credibility of the media is questioned?
How the phenomenon of fake news fits into social control?
Starting from the essay The Wizards of the news. Act II, Marcello Foa and Enrica Perucchietti analyze the relationship between the means of communication, the power and reliability of information, revealing the tricks and logic used by the "news wizards", the most unscrupulous communicators, whose work, unknown to most, it has a profound impact on society and democracy.
The event will take place on Friday 11 January at 20.30 in Turin, in Via Tabacchi 33, at the Spazio Uno headquarters.
moderate: Marco Castelli
Marcello Foa, (Milano, 30 September 1963) is an Italian journalist and writer with Italian-Swiss citizenship. Dal 26 September 2018 he is president of RAI.
Presents: The Wizards of the News. Act II. How information is produced at the service of governments, Guerini and Associates; 21st edition (14 March 2018)
Politicians are truly under the thumb of the media in a society obsessed with the excessive power of information? In reality, governments have learned to use the apparent supremacy of the press to their advantage thanks to spin doctors, the modern “news wizards”.
In this essay, Marcello Foa updates and expands the text of 2006. The author explains how and why it is possible to direct and, if necessary, manipulate information, often without the knowledge of the journalists themselves. Full of anecdotes and background on major recent events − from the war in Iraq to the one in Syria, from Renzi to Macron to fake news − clearly reveals the logic, the techniques, the tricks used by great persuaders in the service of institutions. The book overturns many clichés about the Fourth Estate with intellectual honesty. A text for those who want to understand the role and mysteries of the world of information.
Enrica Perucchietti, (Torino, 5 December 1979) is an Italian journalist and writer. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNO publishing group. She is the author of numerous successful essays among which we remember: Fake news; Global governance; The manipulation factory; Unisex; False Flag. Under a false flag. His site is: www.enricaperucchietti.it
Presents: Fake news. From the manipulation of public opinion to post-truth: how power controls the media and fabricates information to obtain consensus, Arianna Publishing, April 2018.
Foreword by Marcello Foa.
Enrica Perucchietti returns to analyze the relationship between the means of communication, power and strategies of social control, showing how the first to lie to public opinion are the mainstream media. «We are largely governed by men of whom we know nothing, but which are capable of shaping our mentality, guide our tastes, suggest what to think». Thus wrote the father of the science of Public Relations Edward Bernays in 1928 in the incipit of the essay Propagandaa, explaining that there is an invisible power that directs the opinions and habits of the masses in democratic systems.
What has changed over the decades and how the techniques of social control have evolved? How power creates consensus and guides citizens' choices?
How does the current battle over fake news fit into this mechanism??
An attempt is being made to introduce the crime of opinion and to censor independent information? What is post-truth?
Taking up and updating the main themes of George Orwell's masterpiece, 1984, the author shows how the battle against fake news intends to repress dissent and censor independent information, introducing − in fact − thought crime and preventing people not only from expressing themselves, but even to think.
source – https://unoeditori.com/marcello-foa-a-torino-fake-news-e-credibilita-dei-media-tra-informazione-e-manipolazione/
