Oh librarylady...........

We (the Peas) have not discussed, but it is really librarians doing what they have done for years...part of the job..

from the link:
School librarians were first off the mark against the new president and his followers, countering so-called “fake news” though information tools that promote researcher-vetted content on websites and by hosting community discussions and talks about critical thinking. Reports that the new administration had limited the flow of information from some departments was also condemned as censorship by the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

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Teaching critical thinking, or how to identify what is actual information and what is opinion has been part of a school librarians job since I got in the field--actually before I got in the field.

Like all things, one can TRY to teach it and some don't learn. 

--and schools without a professional librarian are left hanging and twisting in the wind.

Libraries are supposed to offer information on all sides of an issue.  A patron is supposed to be able to go to a library and find information that supports whatever position that patron supports.  If someone is hired who does not even know that is what is supposed to be in that library, you may not find it.   Example:  Budgets are cut and the city council decides that the person who is volunteering there can do the job much cheaper, so the professional is dismissed and the volunteer is elevated to doing the job.  That person might purchase only books/magazines etc. that support a particular opinion rather than presenting both sides of the issue.

I was once hired in a school that was 10 years old.  I was the first professional librarian in that school.  Previously the person running the library was a parent from the school who had only a HS education.  I don't have to tell you that I had an adventure straightening up the library.---Good thing about that was that I looked like a hero to the principal. LOL