Fact-Checking at a Crossroads: Challenges, Alternatives, and Policy Interventions (with Andrea Blasco), Science for Policy, European Commission (JRC), July 2025
Abstract: Independent fact-checking organisations play a crucial role in combating misinformation. Nevertheless, Meta and X have scaled back their collaboration with fact-checking organisations, leading to financial strain to the fact-checking industry and increasing misinformation risks. We discuss alternative approaches, such as crowdsourced and AI-driven fact-checking, highlighting their significant limitations. They lack the investigative skills, critical thinking and independence that professional fact-checkers provide. We examine the extent to which public intervention may be necessary to sustain fact-checking initiatives and address misinformation challenges.
In 2013/2014 I was a member (pro-bono) of the economic advisors committee for the Italian spending review on "the costs of politics." The final report (in Italian) is available here.
Nel 2013/2014 sono stato membro (a titolo gratuito) del gruppo di lavoro sulla spending review riguardante i "Costi della Politica" (nominato dal Commissario sulla Spending Review, Carlo Cottarelli). In particolare, insieme a Massimo Bordignon, ho curato la parte relativa ai costi della politica a livello comunale. Il rapporto finale è disponibile qui.