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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: 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.