The American number that says artificial intelligence is closing the door on the young does not hold up the way it is told. But in Italy that door had been bricked up long before, and it was not the machines that bricked it.
End of life cannot wait any longer. The Region set itself a deadline of 145 days, and the only case we can measure took 290.
On 21 January 2026 the Open Society Institute in Sofia published its Media Literacy Index 2026. Nineteen pages, forty one European countries, a score from zero to one hundred. Italy comes twenty third with 51 points. In the previous edition, 2023, it came twenty fourth with 47.