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Role-play game for young media professionals. Your role as a BBC journalist is to cover a breaking news story to be featured on “BBC Live” site. Teaching how to balance accuracy, impact and speed in live reporting.
Available in English
The game simulates the tactics and techniques of media manipulation that are used in the real world to exploit social tensions for personal or political game. For users 15+. Developed by the U.S. Department of State GEC.
Available in English, Dutch, French and Russian
The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. Available on iPhone and Android. Teachers’ Guide to Cranky Uncle
Available in English
Learn how to deal with cyberbullying.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
At Detect Political Fakes, we will show you a variety of media snippets (transcripts, audio, and videos). Half of the media snippets are real statements made by Joseph Biden and Donald Trump. The other half of the media snippets are fabricated. The media snippets that are fabricated are produced using deepfake technology. We are asking you to share how confident you are that a media snippet is real or fabricated.
Available in English
The Disinformation Diaries is a game-based media literacy tool to help you better understand how disinformation and deepfakes can interfere with democratic elections.
Available in Albanian, English, French and Georgian
Dr. Fake has invaded the Media Literacy City! A player has to confront four of his companions: Mr. Deepfake, Mr. Troll, Mr. Clone and Mr. Phisher and answer their questions correctly.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
A game intended to help players learn how to identify fake news stories. The game shows actual news articles, without revealing their publication source until the player clicks to see it. Are they true or false?
Available in English
Game teaching resilience to disinformation based on true / false answers. Developed by Polish NGO Demagog.
Available in Polish
Simulation-style social-impact game. Players take on the role of someone creating and distributing fake news for a profit.
Available in English and German
The game teaches media literacy, though differentiation and analysis of news.
Available in English
Spot disinformation on social media. Can you tell the difference between facts and fakes?
Available in German
GeoGuessr is a geography game, in which you are dropped somewhere in the world in a street view panorama and your mission is to find clues and guess your location on the world map. Great game to practice geo-location skills.
Available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
In Get Bad News, you take on the role of fake news-monger. Drop all pretence of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. For persons 14 years +.
Includes teachers’ guide.
Available in Bosnian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Romanian.
Get Bad News version for children (8-10 years old).
Available in English
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.
Available in Croatian, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
A game teaching geolocation skills. Great resource for history class.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square. You are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. The goal of the game is to expose the tactics and manipulation techniques that are used to mislead people, build up a following, or exploit societal tensions for political purposes.
Available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
Imagine that you are a journalist. The game gives you an opportunity to independently build a story and publish it, seek sources, verify facts, balance opinions. It teaches tolerance.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
A player evaluates credibility of information and various propaganda methods. To do so, the player must select one of four alternative answers. If the answer is incorrect, player’s nose will grow in Pinocchio’s style.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
Highly engaging game with Ukraine-specific examples. Aimed at audience 18+.
Available in English and Ukrainian
Mediabattle is a media literacy game for school children.
Available in Armenian (Ukrainian, Romanian and Belarusian versions are available on their national platforms)
Collection of quizzes testing vetting news sources, social media behaviour, conspiracy theories thinking, the work of the newsroom and many more.
Available in English
A quick visual resource to sharpen your observation skills. Each photograph contains visual clues to help you identify where it was taken.
Available in English
Online course on disinformation and deepfakes in the context of election interference designed by Alliance of Democracies and Canopy LAB.
Available in English
Pilna Doma offers three interactive media literacy trainings for high school students: ‘Reliable source of information’, ‘To share or not to share’, ‘Become a journalist’. It is a media literacy project initiated by Baltic Centre for Media Excellence in cooperation with British Council and US Embassy Riga.
Available in English
Post Facto is a game where you become the fact-checker. Read the story that robot FactyPlex 5000 has been sharing on social media, and investigate the clues to determine if it is real – or fake!
Available in English
Climate change related disinformation. Game for young audiences.
Available in French
Distinguish false information form real. Catch the ducks and assess the information that they are carrying.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
Learn how to avoid phishing and online scams.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
The Adventures of Literatus is a fact-checking game designed for teenagers. There is a board game available. Created by Media Initiatives Center.
Available in Armenian, Georgian, English, Polish, Ukrainian and Romanian
Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making.
Available in English
Learn how to recognize online trolls.
Available in Armenian, Azeri, English and Georgian
Tsantsar is a digital literacy game focused on safety and data protection designed for adults.
Available only in Armenian
Series of quizzes posted daily on Twitter.
Available in English
