How Librarians Can Fight QAnon - The Atlantic
The Atlantic As “Do the research” becomes a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists, classical information literacy is not enough. Adam Maida / The Atlantic For too long now, shared reality has been fracturing before our eyes. Eli Pariser’s concept of the “filter bubble” is already a decade old. Yochai Benkler’s research on propaganda networks finds that the roots of our epistemic crisis predate even the existence of the social web. The origins of this broken informational environment may be complicated, but the stakes are quite clearly life-and-death—and they prompt a question: H...