Understandings, types and means of combat:: a study of fake news with a corpus of librarians

Abstract

It analyzes the understanding and means adopted by school and college librarians in the city of Ceilândia (Federal District) to combat fake news. It addresses the spread, types and verification of fake news. It identifies, among the results, according to a semi-structured questionnaire, using the inductive method, that librarians keep up to date via news channels and that misleading content is the most well-known type of fake news, but false context received more examples. The conclusion is that librarians understand what fake news means, use checking environments, advocate training, warn about safe sources and guide students on checking information.