The Coronavirus Quiz

People are searching for answers and guidance in an effort to protect themselves and their loved ones but information shared online is often contradictory, misleading, or unsafe. Without access to good information, people pose an urgent public health risk to themselves and their communities.

Our team monitored over 120 keywords across 175,000+ public social media conversations to identify trending health and safety claims that have reached the greatest number of people. From this we identified the top 20 rumours and sourced answers from trusted health resources.

The data enabled us to develop a game that combats trending COVID-19 misinformation.

We built a simple swipe and play game based on common social app-gestures - swipe right or left to guess true or false. As the people play the game they're presented with real, fact checked, responses that debunk commonly shared COVID-19 misinformation.

Built to encourage viral sharing the game challenges users to rank up to the highest possible score and prove to friends and family that they're savvy when it comes to COVID-19.

Over the past several months our team has turned the Coronavirus Quiz into a new game, It's Contagious!, with new features, rewards, and content built for a Canadian audience.