Winning the game against fake news? Using games to inoculate adolescents and young adults in Singapore against fake news

• Main Authors: Tandoc, Edson C., Seet, Seth
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Other; Computer games; Fake news
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174031
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Guided by inoculation theory and studies that examined serious games as a form of intervention to inoculate individuals against fake news, this study tested the impact on college (n = 84) and junior high and secondary school (n = 30) students of a fake news computer game developed in Singapore. The...