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Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news

1 pointsby lucasluitjesabout 1 year ago

2 comments

Ukvabout 1 year ago
&gt; students who already had a positive attitude towards trustworthy news sources were better at distinguishing disinformation, and this attitude became significantly more positive after playing the game<p>From the examples in Table B1 of the report, students were considered &quot;better at distinguishing disinformation&quot; if they rated statements like &quot;The mainstream media has been caught in so many lies&quot; as inaccurate, and headlines alleging Russian interference in the US elections as accurate.<p>My concern, even as someone whose views happen to mostly align with mainstream media, is that what&#x27;s being taught is not how to distinguish disinformation but instead a superficial judgement of &quot;does this look like something the mainstream media would write&quot;.<p>I think there&#x27;s a need for test examples that sound well within the &quot;mainstream media narrative&quot; but are actually false, and some crazy&#x2F;conspiratorial-sounding examples far outside the mainstream media narrative that are actually true.
sinclairmethodabout 1 year ago
Extremely good looking guy who society erroneously trusts invents new ways to brainwash, manipulate and abuse school children. News at 11. Vote Democrat.