Fake It To Make It wants you to sell lies. The browser-based game, first spotted by Kotaku, is an exploration of how fake news starts and spreads.

Your initial goals in Fake It To Make It are hardly nefarious; you’re saving to either buy music equipment for your band, put down a deposit on your first apartment, or buy a used car. It’s an echo of real-life fake news creators — like the operation run out of Long Beach by two men who were previously unemployed. Creator Amanda Warner cites the story of the infamous Macedonian teens spreading fabricated stories about Donald Trump as inspiration.

By helping players understand the business of fake news, Warner hopes they’ll be more skeptical of what they read. “I think that better…

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