In this assignment is about gaining more knowledge about misinformation and figuring out how to spot misinformation when it is being presented. By using multiple engaging article and engaging educational games. In this post, it will contain a better understanding of the article and game that allows us to better understand misinformation.
Rumor Guard News Literacy Project’s RumorGuard
On this website there are multiple articles that you are able to scroll and look up trends on what is going on in the world. However, each article is not necessarily true and allows us to see why. To begin, you get onto the website and you first see many articles. By clicking one, it will allow you to see more detail about this article.
In the picture above it shows us the first article that pops up on this website that is trending. However, if you scroll down there will be more headlines to see.
Next, after clicking on the headline that you desire to see what is the misinformation, it will go into more detail about it.
In more detail, it covers how this article has misinformation. Like in this example, it tells us yes there is a chant that is saying “Let’s go, Rangers” but no there is no video showing that there is and anti-Biden chant happening. Therefore, the sources is not there which leads us to believe this is misinformation.
Next, there are five factors that are now included in explaining why this has misinformation. This helps us gain a better understanding to why this is misinformation.
Overall, this website shows us good content of what misinformation looks like. This is a great learning tool on what to look for when reading an article or even looking at social media. This could be very beneficial to our society and helps people limit being a victim of misinformation.
Educational Game Bad NewsLinks to an external site.
This is an educational game understanding on how misinformation may be spread and also the outlook of what perhaps the person who is posting the misinformation.
To begin, in this game you are the person who is posting misinformation to gain follows. You can pick different options whether that is to post a tweet trying to impersonate someone or something or you can pick sometimes to be a good person.
Above, this shows us where you start. It begins on telling us that everyone is frustrated about something, so why don’t you post a tweet to vent. Then after you agree to post a tweet, it tweets something that is more of an opinion not a fact. This shows us how people may be entertained by your opinion if they agree but not necessarily you. It goes on to provide us with another option to impersonate someone to show that you are a reliable source, even though you are not.
In the picture above, this goes to show us how people are fooled that you are someone else and in this case then you get more followers. This shows us exactly how misinformation is spread and how some platforms will just continue to gain followers and a lot of people tend to believe the more followers the more reliable the source is.
Above, it shows us that it gives us the choice on whether you want to keep lying or you want to be done. This shows us how someone can become addicted to the feeling of having power and wanting to just keep feeding people with misinformation because of the amount of followers or simply their opinion.
Overall, this educational game provides us with how people can easily spread misinformation by gaining followers to try to look more reliable. This game was beneficial to see what it looks like from the person who spreads misinformation then compared to just trying to spot the misinformation.
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