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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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    Great article by Lucy Dimbylow @lucywriter with practical tips for parents of primary school students on dealing with disinformation & fake news #Disinformation #infolit @The_School_Run With thanks to @Sarahinthelib & @Elizabethutch for their input! https://t.co/905Vu0mUOr

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    stephgold7Sté[email protected]@stephgold7·

    I'm at the inaugural conference of SLA Europe, showing that librarians & information professionals crop up in all sorts of wonderful & interesting places! All that in the splendid surroundings of @Newnham_College, U of Cambridge #slaeurope19 https://t.co/xqmGGdrCpM

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    stephgold7Sté[email protected]@stephgold7·

    Interesting cognitive psychology research on how fake news is easily memorized, from analysis of 2018 Irish abortion referendum. “People will act on their fake memories & it is often hard to convince them that fake news is fake" #infolit #Disinformation https://t.co/1sX8aXjivY

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    stephgold7Sté[email protected]@stephgold7·

    Worried about deepfakes? @washingtonpost
    has devised a practical, attractive tool to categorise deepfakes, help identify them & link to examples. Rather neat. #infolit https://t.co/vqiztjdzOF

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    stephgold7Sté[email protected]@stephgold7·

    Have just joined the Libraries Deliver campaign, newly-established in the UK. It remains to be seen how effective it will be in campaigning for libraries, but experience in the US suggests that it could prove valuable https://t.co/nPuDlFKgGA

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