With barely a day going by without media reports on the ‘lack of security’ in Portugal, the PJ’s (judicial police) top man, Luís Neves, has come out and blamed the rising sense of insecurity on an ‘increase in disinformation, and rolling news’. He argues that, in reality, ‘we have almost never had it so good’: “We are witnessing a time of disinformation, fake news and hybrid threats, and it is all this that leads to a perception of insecurity”, he told a conference in Lisbon (…) “Today, we have several television channels that play the news of a crime over and over again”. This “creates an idea of insecurity that does not have to do with the full insecurity of crime” that exists from a statistical point of view.
