Teenagers and the Truth of the Fake: Living with Fake News on the Web

The manipulation of information and data has become a very critical threat with a profound impact on society and particularly on the younger generation. In these pandemic years they have been widely exposed to web content, always connected and often left alone, they represent one of the most fragile segments of society and those we urgently need to protect and support in their culture. Through the use of platforms and social networks, there is a kind of mass window dressing that can lead to dangerous deviance. False profiles proliferate even among adolescents, demonstrating how in the liquid-modern era deception has become central to the processes of understanding reality and the distinction between true and false is no longer perceived. And, the very future of learning processes seems to us to be the focus of careful consideration. DAD represents big business for tech companies, which had already been investing in the sector for some time, intent on promoting “a new idea of learning, one that eradicates or circumvents the basic values of publicly funded education: the Bildung, knowledge-based learning pathways, teacher autonomy, collective sustainability, and the idea of education as a tool for achieving social and economic equality” Han, 2018, p. 218).