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Posted by Hervé Matine
on September 14th, 2021

Fake News BOOK is here now!

Celebrating our 11th edition, we, once more pushed barriers to give Fake News the best contribution possible!
This limited edition is printed in square format 215 x 215 mm, on 100% recycled handmade natural paper, 148 pages.
Fake News book is foreworded by Vera Gheno - Sociolinguist, teacher and lecturer at the University of Florence, designed by Hervé Matine and written by Will Georgi.
The best 100 posters book is published in 4 languages, giving you also an overview of we were doing since our first biennale edition in 2020.
You can start order the book here

FAKE NEWS!

Fake news might feel like a recent development that has only come to prominence since the election of one politician who shall not be named, but the practice of spreading rumours and misinformation is as old as the printed word.

People have always twisted the truth, or simply told lies, to get what they want (or change the world). But now we have the ability to share information faster and wider than ever before. It used to be only a few media outlets or government sources that could shape public thought, but now everyone can.

And unlike the media or government, none of us are held accountable for what we post. As there are few laws or fines that can be thrown at us for posting lies, there is no incentive to act responsibly in the public sphere. Get likes (or votes) first, worry about potential consequences later. If the self-styled leader of the free world can’t be held to account for regularly tweeting and spreading blatant untruths, then what stops everybody else from doing the same?