If only we could "inoculate" people against mainstream media, then we'd really be talking.
‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation
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#12Was there data on whether it made people distrust reliable and accurate sources?
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#13I like how this links to the same site that the currently trending HN post "I was 7 words away from being spear-phished" involved :P (note: no reason to believe THIS post is phishing, just funny to see the same url)
Doubly ironic since "Simple online game reduces susceptibility to disinformation" is exactly seven words long.
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#14Was there data on whether it made people distrust reliable and accurate sources?
Paragraph 8:
> the perceived reliability of fake news before playing the game had reduced by an average of 21% after completing it. Yet the game made no difference to how users ranked real news.
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#16As someone who played a lot of MMOs growing up I think there is a Part 2 to this study that will be interesting to see: does this critical thinking atrophy over time? I think there is a continuous pressure for negligent behavior that heavily outweighs any good attempts to educate people of privacy, finance, health, news, and many other categories. :(
> does this critical thinking atrophy over time?
And also, will fake news mutate in order to overcome the learned defenses, similar to the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Actually, I would say we're already well past that point, there's plenty of propaganda that intelligent people are completely oblivious to, some of it is harmful, but much of it is beneficial.
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#17The game is at https://getbadnews.com/#intro but unfortunately it is down.
HN hug of death?
Reddit, it's on the top of /r/all from /r/science - https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/c5ptfz/fake_news_v...
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#18Has anyone found a link to the wording of the headlines?
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#19How do you get past "Loading..." on https://getbadnews.com/#intro , starting from bsaic ad-blocking config?
Or is the site hugged to death?
"502 Request Error The page you requested generated a server error and could not be processed."
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#20Was there data on whether it made people distrust reliable and accurate sources?
It appears it didn't change their pre-existing ratings of those sources. From the article:
The study, published today in the journal Palgrave Communications, showed the perceived reliability of real-life fanfic before playing the game had reduced by an average of 21% after completing it. Yet the game made no difference to how users ranked real news.