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Re:‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation by jrochkind1 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:15PM (#20288196)
And so so many people can't even spot the "usual anti-patterns."

I gotta believe that starting with the basic stuff will be the first step to getting better at recognizing the less basic stuff.

The same techniques could potentially help people recognize the less basic stuff, teach them how to do it.

But I think an equal and opposite problem is that these days people don't believe "real" news as much as they believe "fake" news. They accuse anything that they don't like of being 'fake news' and refuse to believe it, no matter how extensively reported.

I really don't know what to do about that, but I still gotta think that developing basic 'news literacy' skills anywhere is the foundation for more advanced.

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Re:‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation by pault on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:32PM (#20288329)
> But I think an equal and opposite problem is that these days people don't believe "real" news as much as they believe "fake" news.

This is the endgame, and the reason fake news exists. There's no better way to destabilize a democracy than to cast doubt upon all journalism. Democracy depends on a well-informed populace, and if all information becomes subjective it cannot continue to function.

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