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After weeks of design and coding, the game Antifake Expert is now live (in French) on the Culturemania platform. Developed by Chloé-Anne Touma and Houssem Cherif, this free app is designed to train users to develop the right reflexes for spotting attempts at cyberfraud and misinformation, based on real and current cases. When a player achieves a favorable score, they are awarded an Expert Antifake certificate to attest to their skills.
“This ranges from very basic examples, like the Brad Pitt case or doctored images circulating in fake news, to fraudulent emails that need to be recognized, not to mention lesser-known cases, such as the old Yahoo! that some users can’t remove from their browser, without realizing it’s not the real search engine,” explains Chloé-Anne Touma, the project initiator and co-developer, as well as editor-in-chief of the multimedia platform Culturemania. “I see this as a tool that can be used for training or awareness purposes, whether within NGOs for seniors, at home with parents, in school classrooms, and more.”
Excerpt from the game “Antifake Expert,” available at en.culturemania.ca/antifake
The digital issues analyst co-developed the game with Houssem Cherif, the 2025 Cybertalent award winner and Culturemania columnist, to create the final interface and code.
Although the game currently offers only a French mode, with a basic level of difficulty for users, the co-developers plan to enhance the experience by adding new questions and different levels, targeting both vulnerable communities—such as seniors who are less “tech-savvy”—and professionals or businesses, while making the platform bilingual.
Rather than relying on a traditional training or webinar approach, Antifake Expert aims to provide a more interactive, simulation-based, and intuitive experience, allowing players to apply learned knowledge by exploring real cases and clicking on certain images to spot the dangerous triggers embedded within them.
Developed using interviews and documented cases, the game was tested with dozens of users before its official launch. “The game exposes unsuspected realities (…) I particularly appreciated the questions on cyberfraud because they can prevent serious consequences,” comments one user.
The creators invite anyone interested to contact them to help grow the initiative—whether to promote the project, test the app with a group or community, make suggestions, share experiences, or join the movement #AntifakeExpert.
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Screen capture from the French version of the game[/caption]
