There is too much
disinformation and distortion of facts on the Internet, Pope
Francis said Thursday.
"If the Internet represents an extraordinary possibility of
access to knowledge," the pope said, "it's true that it has also
revealed itself to be one of the places most exposed to
disinformation and conscious and targeted distortion of facts
and interpersonal relations, which often assume the form of
discredit".
The pope warned against "the manipulatory use of personal
data, aimed at gaining advantages on the political and economic
plane" and for young people against the fact that "one child in
four is involved in episodes of cyber bullying".
The pope also called for a halt to the use of social media to
"foment hatred and prejudice".
"They too often give space to suspicion and the venting of
all types of prejudice (ethnic, sexual, religious and others),"
he said.
"This tendency fuels groups that exclude heterogeneity, that
fuel in the digital milieu too an unbridled individualism,
ending up sometimes in fomenting spirals of hate".
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