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Dev tools · June 20, 2023

The Misinformation Game

A social-media simulator for research

The Misinformation Game launched on June 20, 2023 with 99 votes, #574 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

If you’ve surfed the internet, there's no doubt that you've swallowed a dose of misinformation or two! The Misinformation Game helps researchers to study misinformation, and how we can fight it online, by providing a highly customisable social-media simulator.

The Misinformation Game is a social-media simulator built to study how people interact with information on social-media. It’s also free and open-source!

The Misinformation Game is a free and open-source social-media simulator built to study how people interact with information on social-media. To achieve this, The Misinformation Game simulates a social-media feed for research participants. Participants are shown fake social-media posts, either one at a time or in a feed format. Participants may then react to the posts and their comments. The Misinformation Game has been designed to be highly customisable so that a broad range of tightly controlled experiences can be created for participants. This customisability is a core focus of The Misinformation Game, to facilitate the research of a wide array of social-media related questions. Read…from misinfogame.com

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