How Bad Are You? Find Out With The Bad News Game.
Last week, we asked you to take the fake news test. Today, we bring you a game to play. It's called Bad News.
Bad News is designed to expose the tactics and manipulation techniques that are used to mislead people and build up a following.
According to its creators at Tilt, a company that offers innovations in information resilience, Bad News works as a psychological “vaccine” against disinformation: playing it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that you may encounter online.
We think it's brilliant.
Scientists who worked with Tilt on the development of the game, found that playing Bad News improves people’s ability to spot manipulation techniques in social media posts, increases their confidence in spotting such techniques, and reduces their willingness to share manipulative content with people in their network.
You can read more about the game or start playing it here.
Slipstream
This is fun. I realized that I don't have that many followers because I'm too honest. So, I'm switching to see how the other side operates and gets all the followers. Not that I'll do it in real life, but I'll see how it's done and be aware of how easy we fall into false beliefs. Thanks for posting the game.