The Misinformation Game

Hi everyone, I developed The Misinformation Game with many collaborators from The University of Western Australia. We have recently had some good news about the publication of our paper related to this work, and I thought people here on Product Hunt may find it interesting as well!

This work started with the goal to make a realistic platform for Psychologists to study human behaviour on social-media. Currently, many of these Psychologists would use questionnaires to run their studies, which do not mimic social-media very closely (i.e., they have low ecological validity). These questionnaires are still used because it is hard to run controlled studies directly on social-media platforms, as researchers have little control over what participants are shown. To address these issues, The Misinformation Game was born to find a productive middle ground!

The Misinformation Game allows researchers to control exactly what their participants see when participating in a study, and it presents a user interface to participants that is much closer to real social-media platforms. We hope that this will help researchers to conduct more valid and reproducible studies about how people act on social media!