Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? - Claire Wardle
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Your town is holding a mayoral election and the stakes have never been higher. You suspect one of the candidates will begin pushing false information to swing the election. As the cybersecurity expert, your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information. First, you must learn the strategies of disinformation trolls. Claire Wardle explores the tactics of disinformation campaigns.
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Additional Resources for you to Explore
If you want to learn more about disinformation, there are plenty of resources online. For example this SMS course sends you small ‘nuggets’ of content every day for 14 days. It’s designed to teach people how to prepare for deception. Or this short course is designed to help people navigate all the information that is bombarding us today around the coronavirus. This bad news game is a fun way to think about tactics and techniques that people are trying to use. Additionally, Checkology is a platform designed to teach young people how to tell the difference between fact and fiction.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Claire Wardle
- Director
- Gavin Edwards
- Narrator
- Susan Zimmerman
- Sound Designer
- Stephen LaRosa
- Music
- Stephen LaRosa
