IFLA-L] How to Spot Fake News - IFLA in the post-truth society

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IFLA-L] How to Spot Fake News - IFLA in the post-truth society

How To Spot Fake News

With Wikipedia’s #1lib1ref (One Librarian, One Reference) campaign going on – the theme of last week being fake news – IFLA posted an How to Spot Fake News infographic on facebook and twitter. We also published a blog about the topic, exploring some of the ways libraries help battle alternative facts and fake news.

Discussions about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy more broadly, and the role of libraries and other education institutions in providing this. When Oxford Dictionaries announce post-truth is Word of the Year 2016, we as librarians realise action is needed to educate and advocate for critical thinking – a crucial skill when navigating the information society.

The fake news infographic shows eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you. Download, print, translate, and share – at home, at your library, in your local community, and in social media networks. The more we crowdsource or wisdom, the wiser the world becomes.

If you want to make a translation of the infographic to your language,  please contact Karolina Andersdotter or Evgeni Hristov at IFLA Headquarters for an editable version of the infographic. We currently have translations in these languages pending, soon to be published on the IFLA website: Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish – do feel free to add to this list! :-)

Cheers,

Karolina Andersdotter

Policy and Advocacy Assistant, IFLA

IFLA Headquarters

P.O. Box 95312

2509 CH The Hague

Netherlands

karolina.andersdotter@ifla.org

Tel. 00 31 (0)70 314 0756