All That's Not Fit to Print: Fake News and the Call to Action for Librarians and Information Professionals

"Dewey Defeats Truman." "Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby."
Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. Whether it was an error in judgment in a rush to publish election results in November, 1948, or a tabloid cover designed to incite an eye roll and a chuckle in June, 1993, fake news has permeated and influenced culture since the inception of the printed press. But now, when almost every press conference at the White House conta...