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03-28-2017, 05:09 AM
This fake news simulator is the depressing video game America deserves
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It's something that's come to be reviled, the very thing that may have cost America a presidential election — fake news.
And the horrible phe**me**n that's been called out by everyone from former President Barack Obama (http://mashable.com/2016/11/17/obama-talks-fake-news/) to Apple CEO Tim Cook (http://mashable.com/2017/02/10/apple-tim-cook-fake-news/) **w has a video game all about it.
Yes, you can actually climb inside the minds of real-life humans who distribute lies for moneyFake It to Make It (http://www.fakeittomakeitgame.com/) describes itself as "a social impact game about fake news."
By that definition, it's less a celebration of fake news and more a socially conscious dissection of it. Well, that's at least what it's intended to be, as its creator Amanda Warner explains. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/27/fake-news-video-game/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It's something that's come to be reviled, the very thing that may have cost America a presidential election — fake news.
And the horrible phe**me**n that's been called out by everyone from former President Barack Obama (http://mashable.com/2016/11/17/obama-talks-fake-news/) to Apple CEO Tim Cook (http://mashable.com/2017/02/10/apple-tim-cook-fake-news/) **w has a video game all about it.
Yes, you can actually climb inside the minds of real-life humans who distribute lies for moneyFake It to Make It (http://www.fakeittomakeitgame.com/) describes itself as "a social impact game about fake news."
By that definition, it's less a celebration of fake news and more a socially conscious dissection of it. Well, that's at least what it's intended to be, as its creator Amanda Warner explains. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/27/fake-news-video-game/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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