NET NEWS: Those Virtual Lyin' Eyes
Science · 1999
A new game challenges Netizens to mask their identities and strip others' online masks away. In the Turing Game, a takeoff on the 1970s game show To Tell the Truth, a virtual audience grills panelists to uncover who's lying. Sociologists are monitoring the show, hoping to extract some useful data, and at least one computer scientist is trying to get a Ph.D. thesis out of it