{"id":15503,"date":"2021-01-07T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2021-01-02T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T12:40:04","slug":"fighting-fake-news-with-fun-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/fighting-fake-news-with-fun-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Fake News with Fun &#038; Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly facts aren&#8217;t as powerful as they should be when combating fake news. So why not try a different approach?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the thought behind a number of recent apps and games that incorporate humor and interactivity into &#8220;prebunking&#8221; misinformation rather than waiting for it to burrow into our brains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;If only there was also a vaccine that could fix the rampant spread of fake news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The idea isn\u2019t as far-fetched as it sounds. Research shows that exposing people to weakened doses of misinformation can teach them to identify it, similar to how a vaccine coaches immune systems how to deal with a virus. And instead of getting a shot, you get to play a game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate\/the-new-game-cranky-uncle-is-a-vaccine-against-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/grist.org\/climate\/the-new-game-cranky-uncle-is-a-vaccine-against-fake-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly facts aren&#8217;t as powerful as they should be when combating fake news. So why not try a different approach? That&#8217;s the<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/fighting-fake-news-with-fun-games\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":15504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,12,36,8,10,31,9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15505,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}