The online game Bad News lets you build your own fake-news empire.Fake news is still with us in 2018, manipulating our social feeds
and minds with blatant appeals to partisanship and emotion.
The media hasn't solved it. Facebook and Twitter haven't eliminated it. The government hasn't fixed it.
The media hasn't solved it. Facebook and Twitter haven't eliminated it. The government hasn't fixed it.
Where all of these huge organizations have failed, the game Bad News wants to succeed.Bad News is a browser-based game built to "vaccinate" people against disinformation on social media by placing them in the driver's seat of its distribution. Built by a team of researchers, journalists and academics, the game tasks you with building a fake news empire while avoiding those pesky people complaining about "facts" and "truth."
Bad News is a Twine-style game
designed by members of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and media
literacy group Drog. Its goal is to teach players about digital misinformation
by turning them into purveyors of it. You’ll start with a small-time Twitter
account and slowly build followers by feeding their appetite for fear and
anger, while deflecting fact-checkers’ criticism and muddling straightforward
issues with minimally plausible conspiracy theories.
You win Bad News by destroying the quality of online
discourse for your own gain. You lose by acknowledging nuance, tipping too far
into fantasy, or fighting with the game’s snarky narrator. It’s reminiscent of The Westport Independent,
a game about running a newspaper in a totalitarian state, except that there’s
no ideological justification here — just the endless quest for clicks and
eyeballs.
The
game works at different levels, involving both bizarre made-up conspiracy
theories - one being the claim that dinosaurs built the pyramids - and
misinformation with a genuine history.
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