Interview with Jorge Leon

I think that's one of the interesting things about this and it's one of the areas I try and focus about with students and with my work as a librarian talking about where to draw that line with fake news. So one of the things I really want early on is to define that not everything that's misinformation is fake news. There's a lot of misinformation. Misquotes that happen by mistake, satire, imparity that people misattribute, the real fake news, the thing where somebody has that intent to be deliberate and purposeful. That is not as common and that's where I try and work with students and figure out how they can be better prepared to spot things like that and fact check. A lot of the things that most institutions talk about, everything from an American Library Association to international associations on a real broad level, is just being very aware. Being aware of the sources you're looking at, stopping yourself before something angers you to a point of just hitting retweet or reshare and saying what were they trying to get from me, what kind of emotional response, fact checking things with

sources like with snopes, with politifact, with a pointer, with different sites that are meant to help you fact check and just doing very lateral research. Research on the topic and go, can I find several sources that reinforce the same thing?