To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game

mikibell shared some links said Wed, Jul 5th 2017 at 11:29pm ET

http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/

NPR article about the genesis of this game…

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/03/533676536/test-your-fake-news-judgement-play-this-game

Sure miss @Hollboll…

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Thumperchick said Wed, Jul 5th 2017 at 11:40pm ET:

I was playing this yesterday! I’m about as observant as expected.

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awk said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:12am ET:

I played the whole 3 rounds and only two were “fake news”. It seems most of the game was “real headlines that seem fake” which is kinda missing the point.

Almost got fooled by “James Comey Tried To Hide From Trump By Blending Into the Curtains”.

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- @awk mine was about half and half real and fake.
  
  luvche21 said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:14pm ET
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baqui63 said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:24am ET:

Just played for the first time (got 1 wrong out of 15)… Using Bing for rewards definitely helps with this game (tho not with finding actual results for technology and knowledge related searches).

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moonhat said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 11:31am ET:

I got 60% correct answers hmmm

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luvche21 said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:15pm ET:

Got 80% right. The one that I really wanted to believe was one thing about excitement for vacation drops by 36% with each additional family member present. That’s the case for me at least haha

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medz said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:20pm ET:

I got 80%. I guess wrong on the one about the Floridian and the alligator… Another one I got wrong was apparently a “real” article, but was more tabloid news than factual info.

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marcee said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:41pm ET:

I got 100% but used “view source” on all of them. Checking the source typically made reading the article unnecessary.

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- @marcee if people didn’t check the source, then I don’t think they were playing the game right.
  
  njfan said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 8:26pm ET
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sammydog01 said Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 12:45pm ET:

I got 100% on round one then lost interest.

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