Pope, you need truth, not false stories

(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, JANUARY 24 - Telling the truth and the "ignored heroism of the everyday" to mend the "tantelacerazioni of today". This is the Pope's appeal in the Message for the World Communications Day which will be celebrated on May 24th. "In an era in which forgery is increasingly sophisticated, reaching exponential levels (deepfake), we need wisdom to welcome and create beautiful, true and good stories. We need courage to reject the false and wicked ones", writes the Pope "Often on the frames of communication, rather than constructive tales, which are a glue of social ties and the cultural fabric, they produce destructive and provocative stories - notes the pontiff -, which wear out and break the fragile threads of coexistence. Putting together unverified information, repeating banal speeches and falsely persuasive, by striking hate speeches, human history is not woven, but it is stripped of dignity ".