Social media and misinformation

Social media, and digital technologies, have changed our access to information by challenging social and legal norms and rules born in a media context different from today's. To reflect on the challenges posed by misinformation, the Swiss chapter of the International Commission of Jurists has organised, in collaboration with several law schools, a series of meetings throughout Switzerland in which young researchers are invited to present their work alongside renowned scholars. The Università della Svizzera italiana's Law Institute (IDUSI) hosted one of the meetings on Tuesday, 22 November: "The Right to Non-Misinformation between Market and Public Service," featuring Antonio Nicita, professor at LUMSA University and former member of the European Commission's Regulatory Monitoring Committee and Commissioner of Italy's AGCOM (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni); Marta Taroni, PhD candidate at G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara; and Andrea Frattolillo, PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. The meeting opened with an introduction by Professor Federica De Rossa , director of IDUSI, on the need to meditate on how the growing political and economic power of social media affects the way we exercise our fundamental freedoms and democratic rights. The floor was then handed over to Professor Antonio Nicita , who, starting from his essay "The Marketplace of Truths.