Gianluca Liva
Gianluca Liva is a freelance science journalist. He holds an MA in Contemporary History and a master in Science Communication obtained at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). He is a regular contributor for various Italian scientific magazines (VICE Media, Focus, Scienza in Rete, Micron, BBC Scienze Italia, OggiScienza). He mainly deals with risk communication and history of pseudoscientific practices. He is a member of the no-profit association “Factcheckers”, a group of italian journalists, researchers and developers focusing on media literacy and educational fact-checking. On behalf of the International Factchecking Network, Gianluca Liva and Factcheckers have recently developed a lesson plan for high school students, which was published and disseminated by the Poynter Institute in the occasion of the second International Fact Checking Day (April 2nd, 2018). The lesson plan consists of a discussion game that has been so far translated in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.-
Walter Quattrociocchi on the Infodemic and how disinformation spreads on different social media
Associate Professor Walter Quattrociocchi of the Sapienza University of Rome recently published a study called ‘The COVID-19 social media infodemic’. By analysing massive amounts of data on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab, Quattrociocchi and his team assessed the global evolution of discourse... -
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Paolo Attivissimo about new tech normalcy
An interview with Paolo Attivissimo. He is an information technology writer and journalist, science communicator, public speaker, technical translator and interpreter, and hoax buster. He has followed from the early stages the intense debate that has been going on about the dispute that has arisen within...