{"id":85,"date":"2020-11-13T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:56:01","slug":"beware-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/2020\/11\/13\/beware-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Fake News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much information at your fingertips these days &#8211; but how much of it is reliable? How much can you trust? How many articles, photos and stories are fake?<\/p>\n<p>Evaluating resources is key to ensuring you have good information in your work.\u00a0 See the Library <a href=\"https:\/\/kwacadlibrary.weebly.com\/help.html\">helpsheets<\/a> on research skills and using Google effectively for some tips.<\/p>\n<p>Also available are 2 websites which fact check major news stories and provide reliable and balanced information on the hot topics of the day.\u00a0 Check them out if you need to fact check information before using it in your work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theferret.scot\/ferret.fact-service\">The Ferret<\/a> &#8211; Scottish based fact checking service<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/\">Full Fact<\/a> &#8211; London based fact checking service<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/kwacadlibrary\/uploads\/sites\/18661\/2020\/11\/13085218\/fake-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"840\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much information at your fingertips these days &#8211; but how much of it is reliable? How much can you trust? How many articles, photos and stories are fake? Evaluating resources is key to ensuring you have good information in your work.\u00a0 See the Library helpsheets on research skills and using Google effectively for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/2020\/11\/13\/beware-fake-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware Fake News!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3,4,6],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-evaluation","tag-fake-news","tag-information","tag-research-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}