Colby librarians participated in the campus election day “war room” event that brought experts from the Critical Internet Studies Institute to work with students to identify election misinformation and disinformation online. Learn more about the event through coverage from centralmaine.com and WABI.

Librarians’ collaboration involved brainstorming search terms for finding misinformation posts, locating major misinformation stories circulating online, and providing tips for identifying misinformation and searching out corroborating resources, especially through Colby Libraries’ wealth of news subscriptions.

As part of this event, librarians revamped the Libraries’ guide to evaluating information. The guide focuses on the SIFT method of investigating information, as well as the ABCDE method for identifying misinformation and suggestions for lateral reading. 

Have questions about spotting misinformation and how to verify a source? Ask your librarian!