Quack Hunter, online game

Quack Hunter is a game platform to hunt down fake news. It helps fact-checking organizations to communicate fact-checked information to users in an engaging way. 

 

The game is the alternative distribution channel for fact-checking organizations, while users learn truth and have loads of fun. The game enables fact-checking organizations to communicate the truth to the audience in an engaging way. It develops critical thinking in the users. 

 

Quack Hunter is part of the The Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship 2021. 

The gaming platform is already being used successfully by the Media Development Foundation.

Quack Hunter won the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) global fact-checking project TruthBuzz in 2017.