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Kickstarter game teaches players how to identify fake news
The idea of Misinformer is for the player to take on the role of a citizen journalist cracking a conspiracy. You start off as a moderator for a typical dull gardening forum, but things change when a wave of political spam arrives and you have to uncover the culprit.
It's a text-based game which unfolds on a smartphone UI and requires you to identify the truth in a world of fake news and misinformation. Playing the game teaches the skills people need to identify and debunk misinformation in the real world.
The game is being created by Jay McGregor who runs the investigative journalism startup Point. For the sake of full disclosure, here at Engadget we collaborate with Point to produce a feature series covering technology, internet and political issues.
As an ongoing project, real investigations from Point's YouTube channel will be fictionalized and added to the game as downloadable content, so there will be plenty of new material to play and the game will stay up to date with the news.
Sign up for it on Kickstarter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @03:48PM (3 children)
Such game would be unlawful in many countries, especially in those where religion is unseparable from state an heresy is a crime.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @04:41PM
So... countries that are kind of like the Republican Party?
(I'll just see myself out, thanks. No need to 'lock me up', or take my children, or water-board me, or kill me with flying robot assasins, etc.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @05:44PM (1 child)
No. Fake news does not mean whatever you want it to. Not all fiction is "fake news".
If a government or a corporately-controlled media tells you carefully constructed lies, it's not "fake news". It's Propaganda. And until you f*cking dumbasses on the right learn to tell the difference, the real conspiracies undertaken by unnamed spies, detectives, capitalists, and politicians will go unchallenged while everyone is distracted by all this fake celebrity-driven Alex Jones bush league shit.
You all think you're too smart to fall for it because an asshole in a tinfoil hat told you so. Did it ever occur to you that that tinfoil-hatted asshole was part of a conspiracy to blind an entire political group to other conspiracies? No, of course not. You were too busy praying to the gods of F*ck You I'm Entitled to Be Right to notice that you were more emotionally triggered by a drug-addicted wife-beating shock jock than a SJW at a comedy club.
Now you'll call me a heretic for questioning your God-given truth. But it will just prove my point. People like you are more interested in being unquestioned than in being right. I guess that's why you expect that *any* government would want to keep its citizens from recognizing the kind of chaos-generating lies that Russian trolls are *proven* to be shoving into every orifice where they'll fit and a few they won't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @02:44AM
That was a cathartic description, thanks. It really takes an emotional toll to try and push the facts around here. I could handle right wing opinions if they weren't always paired with bullshit that is not allowed to be questioned.