Information Literacy: News and "Fake News"

Information literacy expert Barbara Fister explores the computerized information universe. "It’s ironic that Wikipedia, a social platform once demonized by educators as unreliable, now is a global avatar of strict adherence to a set of retro principles about how to properly establish and document information through objectivity, appealing to generally accepted facts, and references to authoritative sources."

An overview and explanation from Twitter of why the social media company "permanently suspended" Donald J. Trump's personal account.

"There is a big difference between WikiLeaks and establishment media coverage of WikiLeaks, a difference between a Trump tweet and an article about it, even between an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal suggesting Joe Biden had done bad things, and a news article that didn’t reach that conclusion."

includes an infographic based on the virus-infection metaphor, from The Institute for the Future.

"Information Behavior and Critical Information Consumption for a New Age, " by Nicole A. Cooke.
Library Quarterly. Jul2017, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p211-221.

A document published in 2019 by the Law Library of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A study by the well-respected Columbia Journalism Review "shows that a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective."