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How fake news is born, who produces it, why it is done and what technologies and behaviors we can adopt to combat it: the practical experience of a computer journalist. Host of the radio program (now podcast) “Il Disinformatico” on Radiotelevisione Svizzera since 2006; Author or co-author of 18 books on popular computer science, of the blog Disinformatico.info and of articles for La Borsa della Spesa, Wired.it and Le Scienze; Speaker and consultant for Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Mediaset and RAI on the Internet, new technologies, conspiracies, hoaxes and media disinformation; Italian-English technical translator; Coordinator of the Anti-Hoax Service (Antibufala.info, over 9 million visitors); Creator of the documentary Moonscape (restoration of the images of the first human landing on the Moon), broadcast by RAI Scuola. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx