NewsFeed Defenders

iCivics

About this game

NewsFeed Defenders is a challenging online game that engages players with the standards of journalism, showing you how to spot a variety of methods behind the viral deception we all face today. Join a fictional social media site focused on news and information, and meet the challenge to level up from guest user to site curator. This can only be achieved by spotting dubious posts that try to sneak in hidden ads, viral deception, and false reporting. In addition to maintaining a high-quality site, you are charged with growing traffic while keeping the posts on topic.

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Learning Objectives: Players will ...
· Identify markers of verification, transparency, accountability, and independence in news stories
· Define and identify problematic news items, and other news-related types of misinformation
· Explain a variety of strategies to verify images and information
· Evaluate text for bias based on word choices and framing methods
· Use third party information to judge credibility of a source

Ratings and reviews

A fun little game. Took me about 60mins to finish one playthrough. And it's free! I can't complain! (Though if I did have to complain about one thing: i feel like on my Samsung S7 the text is a tiny little bit small, would've loved to be able to scale that)

Nice game! And yes, I'm disappointed that it's rather short, like many people here have mentioned. But this is a nonprofit and educational game. It's point is to teach, not to just to entertain! The only issue I have with all icivis games is the font size. It would really be nice if it got bigger!

I feel this gameplay is too short. If the day limit were increased from 14 to 30, it would be better and much appreciated. Also, the same news are repeated, irrespective of what your magazine is dedicated to. And why bother working on focus etc., if in the end your magazine becomes popular despite the fact that your reputation is not that good?

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