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Troll Factory

Online game teaching you how fake news is spread - and why

Troll Factory game asks you to imagine you are a professional troll who tries to amass influence in social media by spreading fear, bias and suspicion using botnets, paid marketing and internet memes.

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Featured 3 months ago

"Troll Factory" turns disinformation campaigns into teaching gameHalf of the battle against disinformation campaigns is educating people about how they work. And that's why the Finnish public broadcasting company Yle-Finland's equivalent of the BBC-has created a game called Troll Factory.

This game uses troll tactics to teach critical thinkingThe best medicine against online disinformation is an informed society that's thinking critically. The problem is there are no shortcuts to universal education. Enter Finnish Public Broadcasting Company, Yle, which is hoping to harness the engagement power of gamification to accelerate awaren...

A new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news is spread - and whyA new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news is spread - and why The Finnish Public Broadcasting Company Yle exposes the inner workings of professional online trolls in order to help people learn about information wars.

Get ready for a new era of personalized entertainmentThe ghost in the machine will now tell stories New machine learning technologies, user interfaces and automated content creation techniques are going to expand the personalization of storytelling beyond algorithmically generated news feeds and content recommendation. The next wave will be software-generated narratives that are tailored to the tastes and sentiments of a consumer.

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8 Reviews2.5/5

Luca

@ilparone the fact that the examples are real is irrelevant for what I am saying. You took one-sided examples and there lies the problem. By the way, you included objective truths as fake news (like "clandestine immigration is illegal", maybe it isn't true for all countries in the world, but for most of the countries I know). Your product represents what it's apparently trying to fight.

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Jarno M. Koponen

Maker

@luqa Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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Filippo Mursia

I felt bad "sharing" those things even if it was all fake! Nice idea, interesting.

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Jarno M. Koponen

Maker

@mrdobelina Hear you indeed, Filippo. Many thanks for the feedback!

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Julien Henri Reszka

Very limited and ridiculous content. The UI is nice tho. Missed opportunity really.

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Jarno M. Koponen

Maker

@julienreszka Many thanks for your feedback! We want to learn and improve for the future: what made the content ridiculous, and what you would have more? Thanks!

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