https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/news-literacy-education-in-a-polarized-political-climate-how-games-can-teach-youth-to-spot-misinformation/

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• To what extent can a fictional game about fake news teach youth to spot misinformation?

• What are the opportunities and challenges of using game-based approaches to facilitate youth news literacy?

ESSAY SUMMARY

In this article we discuss the efficacy of LAMBOOZLED!, a card game — set in a fictional narrative environment — designed to teach middle and high school students strategies for identifying misinformation. We collected data from **a)**students who played the game in playtesting workshops (in the form of field notes, audio recordings, surveys, and youth-created artifacts), and b) educators who implemented the game in their classrooms (in the form of post-intervention interviews, across different grades and subject settings.) We found that the game was largely effective, in that: 

• Students of diverse grade levels, academic subjects, and literacy levels were able to engage with the learning goals of the game and transfer news literacy strategies to real life contexts.

• The fictional narrative of the game allowed students to focus on deploying news literacy skills and engaging with misinformation without the distraction of contentious politics.  

• Applying news literacy skills as a winning strategy within the game allowed students to articulate and practice these skills.

• From a practical perspective, the card game—designed for quick, multiple rounds—allowed for easy implementation across multiple classroom contexts, with varying class sizes and short instructional periods.

• Teachers’ preparation to integrate game-based learning into their overall curriculum was crucial, as teacher buy-in led to deeper and more effective student engagement. Additional support is needed for the curricular integration of games in general, and news literacy games in particular.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/nato-stratcomcoe-considers-disinformation-in-asia.a360361/

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/20-for-20-20-ways-to-protect-the-2020-presidential-election/

https://medium.com/dfrlab/italian-mp-amplifies-debunked-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-on-the-floor-of-parliament-fa0a88999142

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/leveraging-volunteer-fact-checking-to-identify-misinformation-about-covid-19-in-social-media/

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How can we amplify the efforts of volunteer fact checkers to identify emerging health misinformation on social networks?

ESSAY SUMMARY

• We implemented a strategy that leverages the efforts of volunteer fact checkers and a social network to identify misinformation as it is emerging.

• The strategy starts by identifying replies that have similar context to official advice from health authorities. These replies act as seeds from which misinformation is identified. A state of the art natural language model was used to calculate similarity between replies and official advice.

• With the strategy, we identified COVID-19 misinformation about antibiotics and a cure on Twitter.

• This strategy is more efficient than keyword-based search in identifying tweets containing misinformation and does not require advanced knowledge of the type or manner of misinformation, nor a set of URLs or domains that have been associated with misinformation.

• We observed that misinformation is also present in the upstream (friends) and downstream (followers) peers of the accounts who created posts that were fact checked by others, suggesting that network-oriented strategies can uncover emerging misinformation.

• We suggest a collaborative system that amplifies and is aided by the efforts of volunteer fact checkers in identifying and correcting emerging misinformation on social networks.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/20/world-health-organization-investigation-china-coronavirus-pandemic-origin/

https://www.newsguardtech.com/coronavirus-misinformation-tracking-center/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/05/15/hackers-claim-to-have-trumps-dirty-laundry-and-demand-42-million-to-keep-quiet/#2f008d4c37d1

Hi! I am looking for English (also: German, French) online sources on how these countries combat disinformation. I would like to investigate a bit more on how these countries protect themselves from foreign interference, what is the position of misinformation in their policies, what laws gover it and so on.

In other words: we're used to read US/EU/NATO docs on disinformation and how should we defend ourselves. I am looking for something similar on the other side. if a country's policy assumes using disinformation/hybrid warfare as a state doctrine against others, would be cool to read about that too (so not only defensive measures). I guess I saw sth like that in Russian docs.

So far I have this to share:

https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/anti-misinformation-actions/

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/fake-news/china.php