Born in 1977 in Chiavenna (Sondrio), she is an Italian journalist.

After graduating in Letters and Philosophy at the Scuola Superiore Normale of Pisa, he started working at Corriere della Sera where he stayed for almost a decade, with two breaks: a summer studying international human rights law at Oxford and a fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, in the same British university.

Leaves the Corriere in 2011 and moves to South Sudan to train local journalists.

Returns to Italy in 2013 at the outbreak of conflict in the country.

In 2016, together with Nicola Bruno and Fulvio Romanin, he founded Fact Checkers, a non-profit association that promotes media education and the culture of fact checking (verification of facts and sources).

Since October 2017 he is a Young Policy Leaders Fellow at the School of Transnational Government of the European University Institute in Fiesole, with a research project on disinformation and international policies.

In 2017 he published with Feltrinelli Il falso e il vero, an introduction to the phenomenon of fake news and a guide to recognize them and defend themselves.