Doubt and Debate wants to help you understand how the network truly works, how the web works. Why is it that when you browse—based on the data you leave, the searches you have already done, and perhaps the algorithms that guide you—you often find yourselves arriving at different destinations than your classmate who is doing the exact same search?

There are some keywords—we have identified ten, from Algorithm to Big Data, from Privacy to Echo Chambers—through which I believe you will be able to understand much better how your navigation often risks being directed from the outside. Only in this way will you be able, to some extent, to take back control of your journey and know much more, compared to your friends who won't have the opportunity to take such a course, regarding how that magic box that is the web really works.

But this is only the first of the objectives this platform has.

The second, in our judgment, is even more important because it is to train you to distinguish true news from false news: the so-called fake news, and even more insidious, the verisimilitudes that nest and often hide in apparently realistic stories.

And there is a third one that is spoken of little—and in Italy spoken of badly—and that is learning to distinguish facts from opinions. Because everyone has the right to their own opinions, they are legitimate, but no one, no one has their own facts. Because facts are facts.

Finally, the fourth objective of this project is to open you up to different points of view. To open you up to the different ways in which the exact same news story can be reported by different media outlets that, differently oriented, tell it to you in another way.