How to Teach Information Literacy in an Era of Lies – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Whatever your discipline, you should also be teaching students how to understand, assess, evaluate, and apply information. Source: How toContinue Reading
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How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media – The New York Times
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In the ‘Fake News’ Era, Americans Increasingly Value Libraries – CityLab
Millennials, more than any other generation, are likely to visit and trust their local lending institutions. Source: In the ‘FakeContinue Reading
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Doctors have decades of experience fighting “fake news.” Here’s how they win. – Vox
Some lessons from the health community’s long battle with misinformation. Source: Doctors have decades of experience fighting “fake news.” Here’sContinue Reading
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Don’t get fooled again by bogus links, bots and pure bunk. Here’s how. – The Washington Post
“With the proliferation of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, doctored photos and lies that look like news, it’s inevitable: We’re all chumpsContinue Reading
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Checking Facts – MEJO 153: Writing and Reporting – LibGuides at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Journalism School, UNC, Librarian.. on Fact Checking.. really good resource! Source: Checking Facts – MEJO 153: Writing and Reporting –Continue Reading
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COMMENTARY: During Sunshine week, let’s shine some light on journalistic ethics | Las Vegas Review-Journal
#journalism #ethics #journalists #realnews There is no single, all-knowing source for news. Reporters are trained to seek opposing sides ofContinue Reading
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The fight against fake news is putting librarians on the front line – and they say they’re ready – CSMonitor.com
As fake news and complex immigration orders have inundated the public sphere, libraries are opening their doors and fact-checking skillsContinue Reading
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The Challenge Facing Libraries in an Era of Fake News | National News | US News
See also these new guidelines, from last year, first revision for these in 15 years… http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework .. pass along toContinue Reading
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Indiana University tech tool ‘Hoaxy’ shows how fake news spreads – CSMonitor.com
You can see Hoaxy here or direct at http://hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/ Try a search on “Obama” and pick recent to see someContinue Reading
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Introducing This Is Fake, Slate’s tool for stopping fake news on Facebook.
Wonderful idea, whose time is perhaps just right (though I wish we’d had this *before* the election).. hopefully, this canContinue Reading
