How to spread false news and conspiracy theories online? - A new game has been developed in the United Kingdom's Cambridge University to help answer this question.
This game called 'Bad News' lets the gamer make a social media. It offers irritating headlines and photos to share with fictional fans.
Gaimers take the form of star personality and spread misinformation through gimmers, reports The BBC.
The makers said they want this game to be 'antidote' against false news. Director of the University of Cambridge's Social Discipline-Making Laboratory Sander Fon Der Linden said, "These strategies are outside, they are actually using people."
"What we are trying to do is identify how these can be identified, how to be identified and not affected by them, to focus on what these tactics really are."
By teaching people about how to spread false news online, this game will help people to identify the real tactics used by people. Linden. He said, "If you go to a magical show and see the magic, if you do not know how the tactics work, you will first be cheated. But if the magician explains the tricks to you, you will not cheat next time. "