Next Steps for Disinfo Fighters

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Completing the Game:

  • Option to create your own player avatar.
  • Adding a fact-checking module that trains players to use strategies employed by the best fact-checkers to identify misinformation and including that in the game debates.
  • Adding a fifth debate opponent that focuses on disinformation used to target minority communities.
  • Adding a learning module to explore the issue of misinformation in minority communities, medical racism and sexism, and the challenge of rebuilding trust.
  • Expanding the debate database, so that players can replay debates and encounter new arguments every time they play.
  • Expanding character animation.
  • Porting the game to Android and Apple.
  • Translating the game to Spanish, and potentially to other languages that are targets for disinformation.


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Classroom Materials:

  • Supplemental educational videos, such as videos on responding to disinformation and another on tactics used by science denialists and conspiracy theorists.
  • Lesson plans for high school and undergrad classes.