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Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News

posted by martyb on Monday July 29 2019, @12:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-power-of-logical-thinking dept.

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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday July 29 2019, @08:03PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 29 2019, @08:03PM (#872790) Journal

    Everything I believe being true? Hell no.

    Circulating completely fabricated stories with no basis, I'm willing to bet I've never done it once.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @04:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @04:52AM (#873016)

    Circulating completely fabricated stories with no basis, I'm willing to bet I've never done it once.

    I don't believe this. In fact, it sounds completely fabricated with no basis.