An inoculation intervention must stay politically balanced to avoid preaching to converts

Evidence

We also realized that nobody had ever attempted to do this before. We’d be introducing to the world the first fake news game of its kind. Recognizing that fake news isn’t always a right-wing or left-wing issue, Jon and I figured that the worst thing would be for our intervention to become politicized so that we’d just end up preaching to the converted. Jon insisted that we make the intervention both fun and non-political, so we ended up with a slightly controversial intervention in the sense that people can make fun of climate change or view it as alarming and people can attack big government or dunk on evil corporations. For every traditional left-wing choice in the game, there is a right-wing alternative. In a nutshell, we wanted people to familiarize themselves with the techniques of manipulation on their own terms in a non-judgmental environment. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 772

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the ‘non-judgmental environment’ design logic behind inoculation research, and ties to chapter 3’s techniques-agnostic framing. — connects to: Restoring a cultural element without adopting its fundamentalist politics requires fully self-conscious intervention — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 188

Broader Connections

• Restoring a cultural element without adopting its fundamentalist politics requires fully self-conscious intervention #expands (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 188