FakeYou! — A Gamified Approach for Building and Evaluating Resilience Against Fake News

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This paper introduces FakeYou, a gamified approach designed to strengthen users’ resilience against fake news. The game motivates players to critically analyze headlines regarding their trustworthiness and encourages the creation of fake headlines to understand the concepts behind convincing fake news. An evaluation study indicates that generating and identifying fake news is challenging and highlights the need for improved media literacy.

Citation

Clever, L., Assenmacher, D., Müller, K., Seiler, M. V., Riehle, D. M., Preuss, M., & Grimme, C. (2020). FakeYou! — A Gamified Approach for Building and Evaluating Resilience Against Fake News. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07595. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07595

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