{"id":4535,"date":"2021-05-24T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:09","slug":"the-fake-news-wave-academic-libraries-battle-against-misinformation-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2021\/05\/24\/the-fake-news-wave-academic-libraries-battle-against-misinformation-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fake News Wave: Academic Libraries\u2019 Battle Against Misinformation During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bangani, S. (2021) &#8216;<strong>The Fake News Wave: Academic Libraries\u2019 Battle Against Misinformation During COVID-19&#8242;, <em>The Journal of Academic Librarianship<\/em><\/strong>, 47(5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Stellenbosch University Library &amp; Information Service, South Africa,\u00a0this <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0099133321000811&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C39874f463d9e4287091708d91d4f219c%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637573047993133212%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=5bvFwyEQ0MDso58ShEHTwyCHno6zXG66up7D9zrebHM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">inspiring example<\/a> considers the extent of fake news and misinformation in\u00a0 African contexts and the ways libraries have been helping to combat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangani, S. (2021) &#8216;The Fake News Wave: Academic Libraries\u2019 Battle Against Misinformation During COVID-19&#8242;, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5). From Stellenbosch University Library &amp; Information Service, South Africa,\u00a0this inspiring example considers the extent of fake news and misinformation in\u00a0 African contexts and the ways libraries have been helping to combat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17,623,398,64,261,645,83],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-africa","tag-covid-19","tag-fake-news","tag-journalism","tag-libraries","tag-misinformation","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}