As competências do profissional da informação em tempos de Fake News : tecnologias de detenção e disseminação

Abstract

This concluding paper deals with the theme “The skills of the information worker in times of Fake News and Detection and Dissemination Technologies”. The main objective is to identify the functions that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) perform in the process of fact checking, recognizing which ICT help detection. Listing which technologies spread fake news and analyzing which strategies are used to detect Fake News. Assess how the librarian can counter Fakes News using ICT and what skills they should have in order to instruct users to identify false content. The adopted methodology was the applied research with the qualitative approach. For research data collection we used the Information Science and Technology databases where the results show that the librarian must have knowledge and skills in the use of ICT and in the strategies used to detect and disseminate false information