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, 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.