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Facts Matter

CILIP and the Information Literacy Group have launched a neat and nifty infographic on making informed political decisions, as part of the #FactsMatter initiative. This is intended to help with making informed choices, combating misinformation and supporting evidence-based voting in the UK General Election, on 8 June 2017. To be shared widely!

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16 May 2017

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    At long last, the UK Govt has published its Online Media Literacy Strategy, incorporating the first of the annual plans intended to implement it. Potentially, this is an important development #infolit @infolitgroup #medialiteracy https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-media-literacy-strategy

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