Carola Frediani has died, a journalist expert in technology and founder of “Guerre di Rete”: she was 51 years old

Carola Frediani died today at the age of 51 after a long illness. She was a journalist, author, and one of the most authoritative Italian voices on cybersecurity, surveillance, cybercrime, privacy, digital rights, and the geopolitics of the Internet. She leaves behind her husband Luca, recently married, and a 17-year-old son. This was announced on the website of her newsletter “Guerre di rete”: “Carola was the soul and lifeblood of Guerre di Rete and leaves an irreplaceable void in all those who have known her over the years,” reads a post.

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Technology Expert

A journalist capable of telling technology stories without reducing them to technical news, and then a professional directly involved in cybersecurity applied to the protection of activists, journalists, organizations, and people exposed to real digital risks. She graduated in Literature from the University of Genoa and earned a master’s degree in Italian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. Her career began at the Totem news and multimedia agency. In 2010, she founded, together with other colleagues, the Effecinque news agency. Later, she worked at ”La Stampa”, where she first dealt with social media, contributing to the creation of the first internal team dedicated to platform management, as noted in an

article dedicated to her on the newspaper’s homepage, and then she was part of the Investigations team.

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“Guerre di Rete”

In 2018, she founded ”Guerre di Rete”, a newsletter born the same year as the book of the same name. The project established itself as one of the most followed and reliable Italian sources for understanding cybersecurity, cybercrime, cyber espionage, surveillance, artificial intelligence, Internet politics, and digital rights, often with a geopolitical perspective. She worked in the global security team of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat and later in the global cybersecurity department of Human Rights Watch. Frediani wrote for numerous national and international publications, including ”Wired”, ”L’Espresso”, Agi, and ”Vice”. Among her books are ”Dentro Anonymous”, ”Deep Web”, ”Guerre di Rete”, and ”#Cybercrime”. More recently, she published ”L’inganno dell’automa”, released in 2025, dedicated to the relationship between artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the imagination of automation. In 2021, she received the Arrigo Benedetti Journalism Award and in 2019 the Galileo Award for scientific dissemination.

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