How To Spot Fake News

By IFLA (edited by Gil Dekel).

Critical thinking is a key skill in media and information literacy. Discussions about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy.

With Oxford Dictionaries announcement that post-truth is Word of the Year 2016, it seems that there is a need to educate and advocate for critical thinking – a crucial skill when navigating the information society.

The following infographic has eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece.

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You can download, print, translate, and share (do credit IFLA, and link back to this page) – share at home, at your library, in your local community, and on social media networks. The more we crowdsource our wisdom, the wiser the world becomes.