Milan, first act: Fabrizio Corona appears at the Prosecutor’s Office. Act two: the prosecutors show up at Corona’s house. Third act: the audience applauds, whistles, comments on social media. Welcome to yet another episode of a series that knows no seasons or scheduleswhere justice wears a robe and entertainment wears a baseball cap.
The accusation is serious, “revenge porn”, and arises from the denunciation of Alfonso Signorini after an episode of Falsissimo which promised incandescent truths and he delivered images, chats and a sea of controversy to the Prosecutor’s Office. Phone, tablet, video materials seized: not the usual bar gossip, but an investigation with stamps, reports and searches that lasted an entire Saturday. More than streaming.
Corona, for its part, does not move back a millimeter. In fact he raises the question: he asks for an interrogation, he talks about “favor system”, announces redone episodes and “even more shameful storiesThe strategy is clear: transform the investigation into a counter-storyturn the tables and say that the real issue is not what was shown, but what – in his opinion – would have been hidden.
In the middle, the Prosecutor’s Office tries to bring the match back to the right ring: verify whether that material has been disseminated illicitly and whether there are criminal profiles. For now only one complaint, but the trailer promises sequels. The result? A perfect short circuit between courts and platforms, where every judicial act becomes content and every content risks becoming evidence.
Provisional morality: when the boundary between information, denunciation and show is drawn as thin as a 24 hour storyit’s not the likes that decide but the codes. And the ending, spoiler: a judge writes it, not the algorithm. Meanwhile, Alfonso Signorini’s career was disintegrated with one click.
