1 Censorship as an intrinsic feature of information in the post-truth era Samuele Trasforini Introduction «Who needs censorship when the truth can be buried under a pile of bullshit?» (McIntyre, 2018, p. 116). The world of information in which we live today – the hyper-connected atomism of our Facebook profile – reminds us of the artificial reality to which Truman Burbank is enslaved in the 1998 film The Truman Show directed by Peter Wier: an ad hoc constructed narrative in which the world is reduced to our needs and beliefs, a world from which it is impossible to escape because it is not something factual but simply our world. In the era of post-truth, the search for truth ceases to be a primary issue since it is replaced by sensation and emotion, which is why phenomena such as fake news and conspiracy theories have not only become viral, but also socially and concretely dangerous: for example, consider the fact that Donald Trump's candidacy in 2016 was largely supported by fake news, or again – to stay in the American context – consider the contribution provided by the QAnon movement (conspiracy theory that sees Trump as the one fighting against a new world order colluded with global pedophilia networks, dark Jewish sects, Masonic cabals, etc.) to the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. In the era of post-truth, what is problematic is not so much the excessive proliferation of images – which may agree or disagree with the facts – but rather the fact that images are more in line with us the more we consume and produce data and information: this is what social network profiling is for, to show us a world made to our measure; never has the