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Researchers Develop Online Game That Teaches Players How To Spread Misinformation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Cambridge researchers have built an online game, simply titled Bad News, in which players compete to become "a disinformation and fake news tycoon." By shedding light on the shady practices, they hope the game will "vaccinate" the public, and make people immune to the spread of untruths. Players of the fake news game must amass virtual Twitter followers by distorting the truth, planting falsehoods, dividing the united, and deflecting attention when rumbled. All the while, they must maintain credibility in the eyes of their audience. The game distills the art of undermining the truth into six key strategies. Once a player has demonstrated a knack for each, they are rewarded with a badge. In one round, players can opt to impersonate the president of the United States and fire off a tweet from a fake account. It declares war on North Korea complete with a #KimJongDone hashtag. At every step, players are asked if they are happy with their actions or feel, perhaps, the twinge of shame, an emotion that leads to the swift reminder that "if you want to become a master of disinformation, you've got to lose the goody two-shoes attitude." The work is due to be published in the Journal of Risk Research.
They reinvented twitter?
...The white people have a low birth rate and the immigrants have a high one...the religious conservatives have a higher birth rate than secular liberals...The immigrants have larger families and may vote for the left...you've got fast breeding conservative Christians...In Europe the fast breeding religious conservatives are Muslim, and that is an issue.
You seem to be saying that the problem isn't that there aren't enough children, just not the right type of children. I asked why you thought the rate needed to be higher and you responded by describing the breeders.
If both parties are wasted it's much harder to negotiate consent.
Maybe, but I've had drunken sex that I wouldn't trade for the world.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.