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The paper deals with the role of libraries and librarians in the fight against fake news, mainly focusing on four issues: 1) the relationship between content selection and content evaluation, which is relevant even in dealing with free on-line content and its discovery tools; 2) the relationship between the librarian’s neutrality and her/his social responsibility in the wake of the growth and the danger of fake news; 3) the two different paradigms represented by ‘neutral’ and ‘active’ or ‘expert’ librarian; 4) the relevance for this discussion of the distinction between different kinds of fake news.

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Fake news: neutral or active librarian?

The paper deals with the role of libraries and librarians in the fight against fake news, mainly focusing on four issues: 1) the relationship between content selection and content evaluation, which is relevant even in dealing with free on-line content and its discovery tools; 2) the relationship between the librarian’s neutrality and her/his social responsibility in the wake of the growth and the danger of fake news; 3) the two different paradigms represented by ‘neutral’ and ‘active’ or ‘expert’ librarian; 4) the relevance for this discussion of the distinction between different kinds of fake news.

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librarians neutrality discovery social responsibility free online content fake news

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Gino Roncaglia,.Fake news: neutral or active librarian?. 58 (1),.

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