The Bad News Game is a a very effective educational game for teaching people about misinformation and is shows the research aspect along with actual learning simply to show and tell people what misinformation looks like and the game gives people an experience of how it spreads so easily. Research based on this games can highly raise peoples ability to see or know fake news better and able to identify the fake news after doing this game.
This game is really effective as it also points out motivations behind sharing misinformation by focusing on gaining follower and gaining credibility by stealing peoples post. Players will see how misinformation spreads as it gathers way more attention and and gets a lot of engagement from people. The game does also have some limitations to it where it shows common tactics used by people but it doesn’t have newer or new tactics people use like the new AI forms are going around and deep fakes are advanced propaganda.
I do think educational games could help people with mis information and helping them learn about how people will create fake news to try and trick you to make money but it’s a good skill to have. Tools like this game, “Bad News Game”, is a good start with this kind of engagement as it starts people off with the basics. It helps show people what they mastered or what they learned which is a good refresher and just makes people think about those baselines when searching for fake news.
These online educational games are extremely accessible and easy to use. These tools can help reach their target audience and they are not as time consuming, it’s straight and to the point. This game took about 20 minutes for me to complete and fully understand and it gave me a good example with showing follower replies and comments from people replying to my posts about the fake news.
This gives schools and plenty or organizations to use in their lessons cause it’s quick, easy to understand, and it shows good responses that are very easy to visualize and it seems very real in some ways. Overall this educational game is very good to engage with and it demonstrates real world processes that do have moments where you need to make a decision of what to do and it makes people more informed and makes people want to look into things rather than just making a comment or start re posting it without knowing if it’s authentic news.
Throughout the game people will make choices on what type of stragies they want to use and makes them in order and allows them to succeed better. This game is about 2 things, credibility and followers which is the 2 main things we tend to see now in fake news. By experiencing these tactics taught by the game, it shows us and gives us examples of how they use manipulation tactics in which it can help the people spreading mis information or fake news more authentic news to post.
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