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Academic Library Guides For Tackling Fake News: A Content Analysis, Sook Lim

Library & Information Science Faculty Scholarship

Built on a pilot study, this study examined how librarians understand fake news and the specific methods or strategies they suggest for detecting fake news by analyzing their guidelines from academic libraries. A content analysis regarding a total of 21 institutional guidelines was conducted. The major findings include the following: 1) in the librarians’ guidelines stating their definition of fake news, the two elements of falsity and the intention to mislead were explicitly stated. The other element of bias, however, was presented in only some guidelines. 2) The sub-elements of clickbait, a decontextualized content and omitted information were inconsistently or …