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World Service,2 mins

Could a game ‘vaccinate’ people against fake news?

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A new online game called Bad News aims to "inoculate" people against fake news by showing them how they can be manipulated online. Sander van der Linden, director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, is behind the game and talks about his attempts to create “mental antibodies against fake news”. (Image: Fake news. Credit: Getty Images.)

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