Post jokes and tongue-in-cheek subliminal messages. Tell them about your holidays, your family, your spouse, your best selfies. Be your followers’ leader and virtual friend. Your Allies: You have to inspire confidence in your political vision by using every trick of the trade. By carefully choosing whose hatred you want to arouse against their neighbours, you can damage and destroy social relationships within your community. Each person in the grid has different individual features: nationality, immigration status, sexuality, religious creed. Your Weapon: You have to choose hateful contents to post online and a specific target of 3×3 people for each post. Your Goal: Splitting your community in half, by detaching at least 12 people from the interconnected grid of 5×5 people. You: A disingenuous political leader keen on using some good old hate speech to further your aims. Adolescents can learn this way to be more critical about the sources and content of information they find in social media. Divide Et Impera is a game where you interact with a connected group of diverse people initially in good relations between them by using hate speech in various forms you try to bring about division and hostility, finally separating the group in factions. Through manipulation of a simulated small community, the gamer can be confronted with and made aware of actual mechanisms used to manipulate people in social media.

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