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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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    Algorithms: generating a public dialogue https://t.co/LzmiMKcO0U

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    Big themes emerging from @UnBias_algos wshop: in deploying algorithms, big tech platforms are not benevolent, not neutral & their behaviour reflects the huge, unaccountable power that they yield. Solutions must ultimately be political & societal.

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    At a wshop reporting on results of @UnBias_algos research on ways of making algorithms fairer, more transparent & understandable. Implications for developers & policymakers, also for #infolit. Research team has produced useful, free-to-use education resources @infolitgroup @cilip

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    It's always struck me as bizarre that a major source of data on an important public service should be hidden behind a very expensive paywall. Turns out now that much of that data is of dubious quality as well as difficult to access https://t.co/cHUN0hBNEK

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    A timely initiative from NewsWise and Angie Pitt @Notaceleriac: hugely important to teach young people, even at primary school, between real news & fake news, serious content & disinformation https://t.co/B0Xvu3JwHD https://t.co/sL6GsCyI2P

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