How we understand information, how we evaluate its credibility and how we distinguish it from disinformation and fake news; these are the components of what we see as information literacy. We think they are important because, as the great nineteenth century liberal reformers taught us, you cannot have a liberal society without a liberal education. In today’s world, without information literacy education is not education but indoctrination.
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