Fake news, disinformation and misinformation have become such a scourge that Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, is quoted to have said (making an implicit reference to the COVID-19 pandemic) “Misinformation is worse than an epidemic: It spreads ...
JEDi is a version of the known Trail Game where the players must traverse the board by correctly distinguishing real from false news. We raise the hypothesis that as the students play JEDi, they develop the ability to recognize disinformation. It is also important to highlight that JEDi ...
This Teach-Out is designed for anyone interested in learning about how disinformation, misinformation, and fake news shape the modern information landscape and how to combat it in their own lives. University of Michigan Teach-Out Experts Who developed the course?
Harmony Square is an online game in which you’re the bad guys, posting fake news and sowing disharmony. It’s silly and fun and it has quite a bit of reading to it. https://inoculation.science/inoculation-games/harmony-square/ “Go Viral!” is a game with a medical misinformation game...
2.Bad News(Web): Become a Fake News Media Mogul A group of academics, journalists, and media experts banded together to create an online game where you become a fake news media mogul. In Bad News, your objective is to build an online media empire, learning the tricks of how to spread...
Young people growing up in an era of online misinformation have been found to struggle to separate fake news from real news [12,14,16,17,18]. Teenagers stating that they are quite skilled at fact-checking may not hold the skills they think they have [13,19]. The idea that young people...
For example, it is possible to teach the model to return fake or biased text fragments in order to make it more interpretable. Second, it ensures more rigorous and conscientious labeling of articles. Indeed, we set the rule that each article labeled as fake or biased must contain at least ...
manipulative entities will seek to cash in on the rapid spread of misinformation. Perhaps the most egregious of the many nonsense peddlers on social media are fake news sites, so here we offer a guide to several of the most frequent (and unapologetic) hoax purveyors cluttering up newsfeeds ...
Escape Fake is designed to teach media literacy among students aged 12 to 18. You can also use the game with families, university students, and in informal educational settings. # Prequel In the Prequel, you visit the Museum of Fake, set in a dystopian future and get an understanding of ...
Step two: How to check out a link Once you’ve decided to look more deeply at a story online, it’s time to figure out where and when it comes from. Internet news can work like a game of telephone: every time somebody reposts or rewrites something, there’s a chance ...