Build Skills, Fight Censorship: IFLA’s Response to Fake News was a statement published earlier this week, at the
World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, by the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). This statement "reiterates the vital role libraries have in combating misinformation by providing the tools and skills to detect and recognize it. The expertise of librarians makes our institutions unique in their ability to help citizens to evaluate critically the information they find online." "In parallel, libraries combat censorship by defending free speech and freedom of information as a fundamental human right. The Statement underlines this role, and calls on governments to resist the temptation to implement far-reaching ‘bans’ which harm intellectual freedom."
It is available in |English, German, French, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Spanish at
https://www.ifla.org/node/67008
It also links to the popular existing IFLA infographic
How to spot fake news, which is available for use freely, in many, many languages (see example here) at
https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174
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