A Winner of the “Fifth Power” Media Hackathon Created a Game to Identify False News

The Caucasus Hack Pack team (Georgia, Armenia) (in the photo), one of the winners of the second “Fifth Power” Media Hackathon (2016), has recently launched a game called “Adventures of Literatus,” which helps identifying false news. Initially, the game will be available in Armenian, Georgian and English, and later it may be translated and adapted.

“Adventures of Literatus” is a media education game addressed to lyceum students and teenagers so they could develop their abilities to research, analyze and check information so as to easily find false news.
 
The idea of the game was developed by the Caucasus Hack Pack team (Georgia and Armenia) after their participation in the “Fifth Power” media hackathon organized by the Independent Journalism Center and Deutsche Welle Akademie in Moldova in 2016. Within the competition, the team intended to develop an interactive game that could help students identify manipulation and think critically.

The game is being implemented by the Media Initiatives Center of Armenia within the Media for an Informed Civil Society project, funded by the USAID, and it is a part of a Center’s media education project, which also includes textbooks for teachers, training, school and university curricula, and educational games.
 
It should be mentioned that in October 2016, another winner of the second “Fifth Power” media hackathon, TROLLESS, launched a project intended to identify and isolate sources of manipulation on social networking websites.