Giovanni Ziccardi
The use of social networks in politics between alteration of democratic balance, disinformation, propaganda and dictatorship of the algorithm: some legal-informatics issues
Abstract
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Keywords: profiling – psychographics – algorithms – propaganda – social network.
The use of social networks in politics has, in recent years, radically changed the current technological and legal framework. Several scholars denounced a real alteration of the democratic balance, signaling, above all, episodes of attack on pluralism, disinformation, particularly invasive propaganda methods and voter profiling and, in general, a distorted use of the most powerful technologies existing today. In this Article, these issues are dealt from a legal-informatics point of view.