An intervention game that was developed by DROG, Roozenbeek, and van der Linden. It simulated text boxes, photographs, and Tweets. Its purpose was for players to become the originator of fake news.

The "Bad News" Game

An intervention game that was created to improve online news literacy and to combat misinformation. It presents 10 current articles to each player (five from credible sources, five from sources with low credibility), and it can mimic Facebook and Twitter. Its game mechanics replicate social media platforms.

The "Fakey" Game

An online intervention that is meant to increase people's media literacy and critical thinking on misinformation. The game uses four verification assistance tools, and it asks players to identify fake and real news. It was created in Greek.

"MAthE" the Game

While the researchers found that participants were significantly more likely to rate true headlines as accurate and false headlines as inaccurate, they found that veracity had so significant effect on people's intentions to share the headlines. As such they used eight types of prompts to investigate whether they could decrease people's sharing intentions.

COVID-19 Misinformation Prompt Toolkit: Veracity vs. Sharing Intentions

- the "Bad News" Game
- "Fakey"
- "MAthE"
- COVID-19 Misinformation Prompt Toolkit

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Researchers have been creating electronic simulations as means to train people to identify fake news. These are often presented in the form of games, and they simulate online platforms where misinformation and fake news are spread.

Electronic Simulation Interventions for Fake News

Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2019). Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0279-9

Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation

Micallef, N., Avram, M., Menczer, F., & Patil, S. (2021). Fakey: A Game Intervention to Improve News Literacy on Social Media. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449080

Fakey: A game intervention to improve news literacy on social media

Katsaounidou, A., Vrysis, L., Kotsakis, R., Dimoulas, C., & Veglis, A. (2019). MAthE the game: A serious game for education and training in news verification. Education Sciences, 9(2), 155. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020155

MAthE the game: A serious game for education and training in news verification.

Epstein, Z., Berinsky, A. J., Cole, R., Gully, A., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-71

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