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The best medicine against online disinformation is an informed society that's thinking critically. The problem is there are no shortcuts to universal education.
Enter Finnish Public Broadcasting Company, Yle, which is hoping to harness the engagement power of gamification to accelerate awareness and understanding of troll tactics and help more people spot malicious internet fakes. It has put together an online game, called Troll Factory, that lets you play at being, well, a hateful troll. Literally.
The game begins with a trigger warning that it uses "authentic social media content" that viewers may find disturbing. If you continue to play you'll see examples of Islamophobic slogans and memes that have actually been spread on social media. So the trigger warning is definitely merited.
The game itself takes the form of a messaging app style conversation on a virtual smartphone in which you are tasked by the troll factory boss to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment. You do this by making choices about which messages to post online and the methods used to amplify distribution.
Online disinformation tactics intended to polarize public discourse which are depicted in the game include the seeding of conspiracy theory memes on social media; the exploitation of real news events to spread fake claims; microtargeting of hateful content at different demographics and platforms; and the use of paid bots to amplify propaganda so that hateful views appear more widely held than they really are.
After completing an inaugural week's work in the troll factory, the game displays a rating and shows how many shares and follows your dis-ops garnered. This is followed by contextual information on the influencing methods demonstrated — putting the activity you've just participated in into wider context.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/13/this-game-uses-troll-tactics-to-teach-critical-thinking/
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday September 15 2019, @10:37AM (1 child)
Good God! Shut your mouth, you fool. Don't you realize what you proposed and consumerism are antagonist?
Do you want unemployement and job losses? Why do you hate capitalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday September 15 2019, @02:37PM
LOL, why does capitalism hate the Earth?
Jobs? How quaint. Before long, robots and AI will take them all.
Now excuse me, I need to see what I can salvage from my grandfather's fallout shelter, for use on my escape rocketship to Mars, where I and my descendants can work towards the day that Earth will be habitable again. No place on Earth will be safe from the coming apocalypse, which will be in, oh, about 40 years, and will be a combo Global Warming, Nuclear War, Famine, Epidemic, Killer Robot, Gray Goo Event. Billionaire bunkers aren't going to be good enough to handle all that. Tours of the ruins should be good for some laughs centuries in the future, once Earth is repopulated.