“Disinformation is as old as our civilizations” | EUROtoday

L’History is used to consider the unprecedented. Not to “find extraordinary what is ordinary”, as Bourdieu mentioned. By calling our time the “post-truth” period, commentators have steered that an period of reality would have existed earlier than. However, studying the fascinating work of the journalist Giovanni Zagni* and the historian Michel Pretalli**, A historical past of disinformation. Fake information and conspiracy theories from pharaohs to social networks (ed. Mimésis, 2025), we uncover that lies and manipulation are as outdated as our civilizations. However, there isn’t a query of placing every thing into perspective.

Fake information – on the danger of slipping into anachronism – has definitely at all times existed, however its intensification appears to be unprecedented. Organized and massified…