Misinformation Guide

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

Build immunity against science denial by explaining the rhetorical techniques and fallacies used to mislead.

Test your ability to classify 10 news statements as either factual or opinion. Then see how you did in comparison with a nationally representative group of 5,035 randomly selected U.S. adults surveyed online between February 22 and March 4, 2018.

Can you tell if the Covid-19 articles are fake or real? A game that tests your news sense

A game about fake news and misinformation

Your social media feed has been infected by false information. Your job is to learn the skills of verification, so you can sort fact from fiction — in the game, and in real life.

Harmony Square is a game about fake news. The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square, a small neighborhood mildly obsessed with democracy. You, the player, are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. Over the course of 4 short levels, your job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its residents against each other.

A 5 Minute Game that Helps Protect you Against Covid-19 Misinformation. You’ll learn about some of the most common strategies used to spread false and misleading information about the virus. Understanding these tricks allows you to resist them the next time you come across them online. Scientists who worked with us on the development of GO VIRAL! found that playing the game significantly improves people’s ability to spot misinformation about COVID-19

The quiz where YOU examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll.

Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making

From International Journalists Network (2019)

Learn more about an image or the objects around you with a reverse image search.

A quiz that points out the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.

A web-based integrated toolset for the verification of newsworthy user-generated videos and their context.

Our mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

A quick guide to responsing to misinformation

Our mission is to protect communities from harmful misinformation. We work to empower society with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to outsmart false and misleading information.

Offers several free resources for the public, including an e-learning platform, an app, a new podcast, shareable tips and tools

From the NAACP

Research from the UW information school

Self-paced guide to help you understand why misleading information gets shared so much and give you some practical tips, tricks and tools to help you double-check what you see online.