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NPR Ed
Think you can
decipher fake news? Take the quiz.
Fake news has been on Maggie Farley's mind further back than 2016 when
President Trump brought the term into the vernacular.
Farley, a veteran journalist, says we've had fake news forever and that
"people have always been trying to manipulate information for their own
ends," but she calls what we're seeing now "Fake news with a capital
F." In other words: extreme in its ambition for financial gain or
political power.
So one day she says an idea came to her: build a game to test users'
ability to detect fake news from real. The game's interface mimics the
dating app Tinder, which made swiping famous. On a phone, players swipe
left when they think the article in front of them is fake, and right
when they believe it's real.
Take it from us; it's not as easy as you might think!
Factitious. Give it a shot!
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