We need a new information literacy. An information literacy that is no longer about generating skepticism with methods of interrogating information sources, but instead about coping with a world where ALL information is seen as suspect.
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I’m not advocating an approach so much as the starting assumption. The overall approach must go beyond tools and curriculum to repairing trust in a community. More isolation in an age of AI means less trust in information because we have less trust in each other.
If we keep looking at librarianship and libraries as dealing with the deficits of the community instead of healing the community, we end up in a dangerous spiral. Likewise the more we equip people to ID bad info instead of building a civil society the more bad info will be created.
We spend a lot of time teaching how to be skeptical and not as much on who/how to trust. And until we can come up with a decent pedagogy on that front, we're going to actually contribute to the paralyzing/demobilizing "trust no one" mentality that's the goal of many propagandistic campaigns.
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