Catalog: Games, Quizzes, and Exercises
Activities to grow your misinfo savvy and build skills for resilience.
This page is one part of the Prism Anti-Misinformation Resources Catalog. See the Table of Contents to navigate to other categories of resources.
Games
The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. The game was developed by Monash University scientist John Cook, in collaboration with creative agency Autonomy. The game is now available for free on iPhone and Android.
Informable App (News Literacy Project)
Test your news literacy know-how with Informable! Score points for accuracy and speed across three levels of difficulty in four distinct modes.
Fakey App (Indiana University)
This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation. You will see a simulated news feed. Some of the articles come from legitimate news sources, and some from sites that typically publish false or misleading reports, clickbait headlines, conspiracy theories, junk science, and other types of misinformation. Your goal is to support a healthy social media experience by promoting information from reliable sources and not from low credibility sources.
PolitiTruth App (PolitiFact)
Think you can tell the difference between True and False? Now you can test yourself, and see how you stack up against everyone else. Swipe right for False, left for True. The game allows you access to PolitiFact’s database of nearly 14,000 fact-checks, so if there's any quote you're not sure of, you can read all about the facts behind it.
Breaking Harmony Square (U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DROG, and the University of Cambridge)
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.
BAD NEWS (Social Decision-Making Lab at the University of Cambridge, DROG, and Gusmanson)
Confers resistance against bad online information by putting players in the position of the people who create it.
BAD NEWS Junior (Social Decision-Making Lab at the University of Cambridge, DROG, and Gusmanson)
Kid-friendly version of the original BAD NEWS game.
iReporter (BBC)
In this game, your role as a BBC journalist is to cover a breaking news story - publishing your story to a “BBC Live” site. Your story will be judged on how well you balance accuracy, impact and speed.
Newsfeed Defenders (iCivics)
Welcome to Newsably, a fictional social media site focused on news and information. Your mission? Maintain the site, grow traffic, and watch out! You'll also need to spot fake posts that try to sneak in through hidden ads, viral deception, and false reporting.
Interland (Google)
A game to help kids navigate the Internet safely and as good citizens. Part of Google’s Be Internet Awesome initiative.
GO VIRAL! (Social Decision-Making Lab at the University of Cambridge, DROG, Bad News, Gusmanson, and the UK Cabinet Office)
GO VIRAL! is 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.
Factitious 2020 (AU Game Lab and the JoLT program)
Swipe right if you think the article is real, i.e., fact-based reporting from a reliable source. Swipe left if you think the article is fake, i.e., made-up news, satire, ads, or opinion.
Fact-Check It! (International Fact-Checking Network)
A role-playing card game that stimulates critical thinking, fact-based dialogue and analytical skills among students. It takes place in the fictional country of Agritania, where the debate over an upcoming referendum to ban GMOs has been consumed by fake news and dubious claims. Students will operate in the newsroom of the Agritania Today and have to verify 25 different news items in order to inform the editorials that will come out on the day of the vote.
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Quizzes
News Lit Quiz: Should you share it? (News Literacy Project)
We can all make healthier choices about the information we consume, share and act on. When we do, we help stop the spread of misinformation. But can you tell the difference between social media posts that are false or misleading and those that are credible?
News Lit Quiz: Avoid the trap of conspiratorial thinking (News Literacy Project)
Conspiracy theories appeal to our psychological need for a simple explanation and someone to blame. You can stumble across them online even when searching for reliable information. These compelling narratives, and the false evidence they include, can draw you in, manipulating your emotions and using your cognitive biases against you to trick you into believing them. This quiz is designed to help you learn to recognize conspiratorial thinking and understand its consequences.
News Lit Quiz: How news-literate are you? (News Literacy Project)
Test your news literacy knowledge with these 12 questions.
News Lit Quiz: How newsrooms work (News Literacy Project)
Part of being NewsLit Fit means understanding how standards-based journalism works. Take this quiz and see if you are a true newshound!
News Lit Quiz: Fighting falsehoods on social media (News Literacy Project)
How much do you know about these platforms’ misinformation policies?
News Lit Quiz: Can you make sense of data? (News Literacy Project)
From politics to a pandemic, everyone is interested in influencing your opinion, and many are using data to do it. This quiz will assess your skill at distinguishing the real meaning within the data.
Will you fall into the conspiracy theory rabbit hole? Take our quiz and find out. (David Byler and Yan Wu via Washington Post)
An annotated six-question quiz to illustrate how most Americans believe in some conspiracy theory or another.
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Exercises
Bias: Types and Forms, Level 1 (News Literacy Project Checkology)
An exercise to check mastery of the types and forms of bias in the media. (See also video course “Understanding Bias” in TRAINING COURSES below.)
Bias: Types and Forms, Level 2 (News Literacy Project Checkology)
An exercise to check mastery of the types and forms of bias in the media. (See also video course “Understanding Bias” in TRAINING COURSES below.)