Targeted museums and places in the city of Florence and there are many people who believed the false events sponsored by Facebook pages
Despite the mobilization of very important people and numerous attempts to stem the phenomenon, the fake news continue to spread undisturbed on Facebook. And unfortunately the number of users who believe in fake news are still many. As demonstrated by the latest case reported by many museums.
Thousands of people have signed up, in fact, to some events published on the social network. Unfortunately, these initiatives have been invented from scratch. Van Gogh exhibitions, Adele concerts. Or shows of Linkin Park, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and even Guns N'Roses. All fake. On the pages artfully created by the makers of fake news there are also dates and times of events. Cities and museums have raised the alarm: the risk, in fact, is to be overwhelmed by hordes of people, convinced to attend one of the fake events reported on Facebook.
Targeted the city of Florence
Most of the fake events sponsored on Facebook has targeted especially the city of Florence. At the Museo Novecento in Santa Maria Novella, for example, there was supposed to be an interactive Van Gogh exhibition. Thousands of people started to call the museum switchboards. Palazzo Strozzi, instead, should have hosted an exhibition dedicated to the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Also in this case it was all fake. The people involved asked for help to the postal police and to the local institutions that removed the incriminated pages.
Fake news danger
The success of these invented initiatives is mainly due to the lack of preparation of the users to recognize the fake news. False news that if shared further feed the vicious circle. Still there are not - and maybe never will be - algorithms able to recognize and block the diffusion of false news. Everything revolves around the sensitivity of users. Facebook a few days ago launched a real vademecum with the aim of teaching its members to distinguish the news completely invented from the real ones.