How librarians can engage citizens to use open access contents and open data as source for fact-checking [article]

Paola Coppola, Damiano Orrù
2021
This paper describes the BiblioVerifica blog, which is an attempt by librarians to fight misinformation by using media and data literacy, engaging citizens as awareness users of the social networks, chats and blogs. BiblioVerifica aims to be a public engagement project based on information literacy practices, implementing tips and tricks about search tools, reliable sources, verification strategies. This non-profit initiative promotes factchecking based on open resources as data, journals, tools, etc. (DIPF/Orig.)
doi:10.25656/01:17885 fatcat:fnua47vyv5hjlonkupnn7b3hzm