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25 Jun 2019: Search. Search. Fake news ‘vaccine’ works: ‘pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation. ... Share. Published. 25 Jun 2019. Image. Screenshot from the fake news 'vaccine' game Bad News.

29 Jun 2024: 25 Jun 2019. Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a 'vaccine', increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a “weak dose” of. ... 20 Feb 2018. A new experiment, launching today online, aims to help

17 May 2019: The game will feature in van der Linden's talk, Vaccinating fake news, at this year’s Hay Festival on 25th May where it forms part of the Cambridge Series. ... We want to be proactive and pre-bunk fake news.”. He adds that it is important that the

11 Oct 2020: A new online game that puts players in the shoes of a purveyor of fake pandemic news is the latest tactic in efforts to tackle the deluge of coronavirus misinformation that ... Our pre-bunk game not only improved people’s ability to spot fake news but

17 Dec 2020: From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Take part in this online game where you play the role of propaganda producers to help you identify real world disinformation and ... increase your “psychological resistance” to fake news.

20 Feb 2018: Search. Search. Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics. ... Image. A screen shot of the Fake News Game on a smart phone.

29 Jun 2024: 20 Feb 2018. A new experiment, launching today online, aims to help ‘inoculate’ against disinformation by providing a small dose of perspective from a “fake news.

6 Feb 2023: The first of its kind, Bad News is a fully interactive fake news game that mimics a social media environment. ... The game broke new ground but its logic remains slightly controversial: in order to confer immunity, people needed to be ‘injected’ with

19 Nov 2020: 12 Ad HocSearch for a vaccine (against fake news too), the £10m challenge, looking beyond the pandemic, and more. ... CO. VID. -19. A new online game that puts players in the shoes of a purveyor of fake pandemic news is the latest tactic in efforts to

27 Feb 2023: It also spreads like a virus, which we know because we use models from epidemiology to understand how fake news spreads in social networks. ... What do people most struggle with in terms of distinguishing between fake news and actual news?

14 May 2020: It helps inoculate players against fake news and misinformation, including fake news about COVID-19. ... By actively exposing people to severely weakened doses of the tactics used to produce fake news, people gain psychological immunity (or mental

14 Oct 2020: The research reveals 'key predictors' for susceptibility to fake pandemic news, and finds that a small increase in the perceived reliability of conspiracies relates to a larger drop in the intention ... that helps 'inoculate' players against fake news by

6 Nov 2020: Twitter has started using a “pre-bunk” approach: highlighting types of fake news likely to be encountered in feeds during the US election. ... The game also reduced willingness to share fake news with others by 11%.

11 Dec 2018: Fake news is like a virus,” she says. “It spreads fast and deeply. ... It is an online choice-based game that encourages the players to walk in the shoes of a “fake news tycoon”.

12 May 2021: The five-minute game puts people in the shoes of a purveyor of fake pandemic news, encouraging players to create panic by spreading misinformation about COVID-19 using social media – all ... Every weapon in our arsenal should be used to fight the fake