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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: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday July 29 2019, @09:47PM (8 children)
These are some nice tips. 'centered on making someone as angry as possible' roflmao
Search for 'operation firesign' which was just spam/trolled onto one of my recent comments, all sites are obviously totally fake. Simply the name gives it away, but there are *so many*. Scroll through ten pages of that you will run back to Anderson Cooper crying, not caring one bit his last name is actually vanderbilt and he has exactly the opposite background you would want in a journalist.
I applaud the effort to create a tool to train(?) people but I have to point out this is also a very subjective perspective-shaping tool that could be used for eval in the wrong hands. I am also certain they are training the degenerate classes in the various re-education and organ donation centers in China to wet their pants and call the fire department when they hear the concept of constitutional law or the right of prisoners to dignified treatment.
It would seem this discernment should just be added to what is totally normal new stuff to teach the youths but it's so much more complicated than surface level. The companies and site ownership change, people sell out, and there is actual state propaganda coming from all sources with the Actual Intent of making people Give Up and just get their news from a single source, OR flip out and go full on flat earther.
Consider, I have long suspected The Antimedia and The Free Thought Project of being sock puppets for a dozen reasons on my rubrik, but they were banned by facegag recently, WHICH I ALSO KNOW IS NOT CREDIBLE, so what's up with that?
Propaganda banning each other as a form of propaganda? But in the same batch of bans, some people were actually censored, maybe even me, I'm not sure what happened to my protest profile I'm afraid to look because even visiting that site is a form of leprosy.
This is hypernormalization, it's what 'fake news' represents. Rapid change. Changing language. Confusing making any faction vbut the big one nearly impossible. New definitions that somehow override old concepts and make them disappear. How do people feel differently when they hear 'fake news' vs 'propaganda'? Frankly I think it de-intellectualizes the entire endeavor of media criticism. Propaganda is what hitler did, calling Fox fake news is like the professional wrestling way to say it. Put neo in front of it and you can redefine several centuries of political thought in 5 years if you push it out through a 'think tank'.
BTW a think tank is just a propaganda mill, it's literally where they manufacture fake news, yet calling it 'think tank' makes you think(there's that word again) that they are generating thought when in fact they are generating words that will nip thought in the bud with thought terminating cliches.
These things are pernicious and nefarioius and they are not doing it by accident, someone is intentionally trying to degrade the english language and prevent any form of effective journalism from existing, and apparently unravel the united states by hammering all of the most divisive issues, which should scare you. I have written about this extensively at my website on a page I call, Important Definitions.
Shameless self promo: https://jmichaelhudson.net/important-definitions/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
I will be writing more on this topic you can be sure. We have seen what the internet looks like with no credibility, we have to find a way to create some. Beware of things like 'newsguard' with ex cia employees trying to make a list of what is journalism and what is not. The united states military can legally propagandize americans now, this is at least half of the problem, so you actually get several nations at once ddosing thousands of each other's auto-generated sites. Maybe the worst thing President Obama did, signed the order, now all 4+ branches of the military are operating their own uniformed on-base facegag sqaud and calling it national defense. I would not be at all surprised if they were not behind the entire flat earth thing.
Any way to crack a consensus and degrade the people who point out their war crimes and utter failure they will apparently spend time and money on. (and beware of hosting out of utah lol)
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Monday July 29 2019, @09:51PM (3 children)
The hopping from topic to topic with only the most tenuous connection between each paragraph of your post feels too muddled to make sense of. It's okay to have a couple points you want to make, but this feels like 20 different barely-connected points. And the end result is I don't know what you're on about.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday July 30 2019, @05:03PM (2 children)
Fair enough. I am working on this, sometimes I just feel like roaming though.
I think our times call for more discussion and thinking about things in as many new ways as possible so also at this particular moment I am trying to be generous and really contemplate things to the best of my ability, and erring on that side of things. I try also to look for the aspect that is not like all the others.
You could also just ask a question about a point that doesn't seem to follow, I'm a human being and I would prefer dialogue anyway. And sometimes it's just bad writing that a suggestion might improve, a better way to say something.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday July 30 2019, @05:05PM (1 child)
My problem was I didn't know your central point though. I couldn't tell what you were hoping to get from the conversation at all.
More dialog is indeed good. As long as it's not with... certain people who should shut the fuck up and never have opinions again.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday July 30 2019, @05:27PM
I want to question the idea that these people can just willy nilly put together a society transforming training mechanism to teach people truth.
Then in light of that consider how difficult the problem is in light of the obvious efforts to obfuscate on a massive scale, and the threat such a totalitarian system poses to free thinking people.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @02:35AM (3 children)
Anyone else wondering if MDC just did a disappearing act?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @04:59AM (1 child)
Sadly, I think that is just wishful thinking.
I've thought that a couple of the GPP's posts were similar, but despite the similar batshit insanity he just doesn't quite have MDC's good nature, empathy and intelligence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 31 2019, @03:06AM
Hmm, flamebait. Rereading that it probably deserves it, but that is not what I meant.
MDC was very smart, very nice, very compassionate, and never seemed to get upset no matter how much he was trolled. You can be well below MDC's level and still be above average for SN.
Some of the GGPP's posts are similar in style/tone to some of MDC's - this isn't the first post of his I have read and thought wow sounds like MDC. And I'm not alone, the other AC brought it up first.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday July 30 2019, @05:07PM
aw what a nice thing to say.
It is true that I notice his absence here and what he has written for SN gives me some of the courage to post.
I think it's just that 'parrheittis' greek word or whatever, people aren't used to it. In this we represent the same or similar traditions so yeah, it is nice of you to notice.
But I would rather you say something intelligent about the problem, my arguments, or my facts.