PolitiTruth: A PolitiFact Game

3.0
50 reviews
5K+
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Everyone
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About this game

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

Swipe left to guess a news story is false and swipe right to guess it is true. The game is made in partnership with the Pulitzer Prize winning organization PolitiFact in the hopes of encouraging players to better discern sources of information while gathering beneficial statistics on public misconceptions. By tapping into our competitive nature, we hope to expand political consciousness.

Guesses are anonymously saved online to show how your political awareness compares to other players, and to help identify the stories people get wrong most often.

Data on public misconceptions in politics is highly reliant on surveys and our hope is with a large audience of people playing, we can make these statistics more robust and reduce response bias.

The game is premiering at E3 2017 through the IndieCade showcase.

PolitiTruth was created by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis and is part of Cinq-Mars Media, a 501(c)3 devoted to education.

www.cinqmarsmedia.com
www.politifact.com
Updated on
Oct 8, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

3.0
49 reviews
Brian Russell
October 13, 2020
A great concept, and one that really needs to be available in this day and age. The wording on a number of the questions/claims is vague, and I found myself getting them wrong simply due to not understanding what it was asking me, even though I knew the news piece about it. A bit more polish would be a welcome addition, but on the whole, nicely done.
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A Google user
March 19, 2020
Amazing app!!! It's got that good ol fashion non-partisan presentation of facts and I found that of the initial five questions to be pretty evenly split between democratic and Republican politicians and is blunt on the level of transparency being presented by the politicians. (Although I have found I was getting a slight delay when scrolling down, so that when the I'm trying to see the bottom where the name of the person is it felt like I was going to swipe up on the screen?-tech)
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Mike Mike
July 25, 2021
Good effort and a good resource. Simple true false, a bit confusing on some questions but who cares. Totally US American focused. Stops every 5 swipes to show an ad, Eg ask for support or sign-up, and to tell you your score rating, which is a bit annoying.
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What's new

Updated for 2020 Election with renewed access to the PolitiFact API and several performance enhancements. Open source on GitHub and free sharing of data