Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes do not favor press freedom and suppress it by any means, from censorship to the arrest of journalists. The difference between authoritarian regimes and democracy in relation to information is thus obvious. Less explored is the process that today tends to reduce this difference. The methods may not be as brutal, but in the long run, the consequences for the health of democracy can be equally devastating, aided by social networks and artificial intelligence.
This book analyzes an insidious enemy, fueled by pressure from those in power, purges, sycophancy, and careerism, a “media circus” in which the protagonists are always the same, and interchangeable television formats that end up expressing a sort of unified network. Exposing, halting, and perhaps reversing this drift has become absolutely vital.

Massimo Nava
Massimo Nava is a journalist and columnist for Corriere della Sera. He has served as a special correspondent and war reporter covering regions from Asia to Africa, and from the Balkans to Iraq. He has written investigative pieces on Italian society, the Years of Lead terrorism, issues in Southern Italy, with particular focus on the phenomena of the mafia and the Camorra, as well as post-earthquake reconstruction. He has won numerous awards for his reporting. He served as a Paris correspondent for twenty years and was awarded the Legion of Honour. A lecturer at Luiss Guido Carli University, he is the author of non-fiction works such as Carovane d’Europa (1992), Kosovo: c’ero anch’io (1999), Il francese di ferro (2007), Angela Merkel: La donna che ha cambiato la storia (2021), Quella sera in galleria, come nacque il Corriere della Sera (2023), as well as novels including Infinito amore (2014), Il mercante di quadri scomparsi (2016), and Il boss è immortale (2018).