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Taking it to the video game streets

As pervasive as fake news has become, it has yet to be immortalized in merchandise. Or has it? Fake news has started to appear as a story line in popular TV shows like Homeland, Quantico and The Good Fight within the last year, and sadly enough, has even become the main arc of a newly released video game.

Yes, you can actually climb inside the minds of real-life humans who distribute lies for money. Fake It to Make It describes itself as "a social impact game about fake news."

By that definition, it’s less a celebration of fake news and more a socially conscious dissection of it. Well, that’s at least what it’s intended to be, as its creator Amanda Warner explains.

Read more at Mashable.

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