DEMOCRAZY: 5 Stars on Trickadvisor

"The 5-Star Movement promised to bring the people back into Italian politics with the help of technology. But what if this technology is run by a morphed Mark Zuckerberg, who controls his company, a consultancy and the party all at once? And what happens if, like most start-ups and shady schemes, it all collapses? In the first instalment of DEMOCRAZY, Nico takes a look at Davide Casaleggio, the man steering the movement - perhaps into the ground."

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Sources / Picture credits:

1) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benito_Mussolini_uncolored.jpg | unknown | CC0 1.0

2) https://flickr.com/photos/45198836@N04/47951981952 | European People's Party | CC BY 2.0

3) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/matteo-salvini-s-beach-antics-offend-allies-vxgpx03cc | STEFANO CAVICCHI/REX

4) Magazine "Chi" on the 25. 10. 2017

5) https://vote.rousseau.movimento5stelle.it/ on 28/01/2020

6) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beppe_Grillo_-_Trento_2012_02.JPG | Niccolò Caranti | CC BY-SA 3.0

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Research / further reading:

On Casaleggio:
Jason Horowitz, “The Mystery Man Who Runs Italy’s ‘Five Star’ From the Shadows,” The New York Times, 28 February 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/europe/italy-election-davide-casaleggio-five-star.html.

On the Rousseau platform:
Jacopo Iacoboni, “The Experiment,” Jacobin, 3 Feb 2018 (accessed 15 Jan 2020),
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/five-star-movement-roberto-casaleggio-grillo.

On concerns about data collection and manipulation through Rousseau:
Giovanni Navarria, The Networked Citizen: Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age, Giovanni Navarria, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 205-210.
https://books.google.be/books?id=5Ne5DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA205&ots=TZSDBy8sEQ&dq=casaleggio%20data&pg=PA204#v=onepage&q=casaleggio%20data&f=false-

On Casaleggio’s dealings with Gilead:
Jacopo Iacoboni, “Sanità, report-Casaleggio pagato dall’azienda Gilead,” La Stampa, 2 January 2020.
https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/primo-piano/2020/01/02/news/sanita-report-casaleggio-pagato-dall-azienda-gilead-1.38277993.

On Casaleggio’s dealings with Philip Morris and Moby:
Carlo Tecce, “Casaleggio, gioco, navi e tabacco: le lobby anti-M5s ingaggiano la società del fondatore,” Il Fatto Quotidiano, 17 October 2019.
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2019/10/17/gioco-navi-e-tabacco-le-lobby-anti-5s-ingaggiano-casaleggio/5518935/
On Casaleggio’s legal status in the party:
Luciano Capone, “Esclusiva: così Davide Casaleggio è diventato il padrone del M5s,” Il Foglio, 31 January 2018.
https://www.ilfoglio.it/politica/2018/01/31/news/m5s-associazione-rousseau-davide-casaleggio-176085/.

On the connections between Rousseau, 5 Stars and Casaleggio Associates:
“Di chi è l’Associaizone Rousseau?” Il Foglio, 19 February 2019.
https://www.ilfoglio.it/politica/2019/02/19/news/di-chi-e-l-associazione-rousseau-239112/.

On the 5-Star-Movement’s ideological “flexibility”:
Luca Manucci and Michi Amsler, “Where the wind blows: Five Star Movement’s populism, direct democracy and ideological flexibility,” Italian Political Science Review, March 2018.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AEAB92A21A67FF83419725D4FD267580/S0048840217000235a.pdf/where_the_wind_blows_five_star_movements_populism_direct_democracy_and_ideological_flexibility.pdf.

On the questionable purpose of party fees:
Luciano Capone, “Il M5s nella scatoletta di Casaleggio,” Il Foglio, 4 January 2018.
https://www.ilfoglio.it/politica/2018/01/04/news/m5s-come-funziona-rousseau-171579/.
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