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I earnestly wish that more library workers took seriously the prospect of information warfare. I've published similar recommendations to Hughes's in the past, including: 1) defend your privacy, 2) practice ladder reading (upstreaming to primary sources), not just lateral reading, 3) "be a fox, not a hedgehog" (know many things), 4) ask the right questions, 5) take a trust pause, 6) "surrender your weapons" (resist the urge to post / reshare things online), 7) embrace uncertainty (and reserve the right to change your mind), 8) adopt watchful waiting (precautionary principle), 9) demand more of authorities (and experts), 10) suspend disbelief (regarding Conspiracy theories, Censored topics, and Citizen journalism), and 11) maintain readiness (overcome fear by pursuing epistemic and real-world self-reliance).

For ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom, Shelter in Headspace: Survival Tips for the Information War https://www.oif.ala.org/shelter-in-headspace-survival-tips-for-the-information-war/

Originally for Root Quarterly magazine, Marching Orders: The Covid Infodemic https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/marching-orders/

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Wow The Onslaught of Information is perfect. It's so helpful to see all of those claims cited in one place. Thank you for writing these pieces!

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Thanks 😅 and those were ca. summer / fall 2021 -- we could certainly add to them at this point...!

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Great suggestions! Of course I have no idea how this particular drone story is going to play out, but it seems to me that this type of analysis and these tips are useful going forward (and are also applicable to several other events of the past few years).

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