Plausibility Growth Initiatives (Fake News)

In the Fake News scenario, there are several initiatives that allow to increase the plausibility of the hoax through the manipulation of various media outlets as well as the corruption of high ranking individuals and politicians.

List of Initiatives

Media Manipulation Initiatives

Icon	Initiative	Fund Cost	Description	Stats
	Influencers	6	Sign up influential personalities, journalists and writers, to support your misinformation. Slightly increase Virality and Plausibility.	+2 in Virality +3 in Plausibility
	Out Of Context	4	Hire research teams to find quotations from influential individuals that can be used out of original context. Slightly increase Plausibility.	+2 in Plausibility
	Media Outreach	10	Engage established voices across mainstream media to explicitly produce content to lend credence to misinformation. Increase Plausibility.	+6 in Plausibility
	Mainstream Media Appearance	14	Push for the appearance of strong personalities on mainstream news programming, where 'unbiased' coverage will allow them to speak unchallenged. Increase Plausibility.	+2 in Virality +7 in Plausibility +1 in Community
	Fabricate Data	12	Hire research teams to construct false, but believable data sets, which can lend credence to misinformation. Increase Plausibility.	+7 in Plausibility
	Deep Fakes	16	Use advanced facial recognition and mimicking technology to misquote influential people and power misinformation. Significantly increase Plausibility.	+10 in Plausibility

Individual Manipulation Initiatives

Icon	Initiative	Fund Cost	Description	Stats
	Onboard Politician	15	Convince a politician to adopt misinformation and to promote it on their personal campaigns. Significantly increase Plausibility.	+9 in Plausibility
	Hire Fake Experts	16	Pay established experts in relevant fields to come out in support of misinformation. Significantly increase Plausibility.	+10 in Plausibility
	Exploit Institutions	13	Reach out to established organisations that work within the field, and have them openly support misinformation. Significantly increase Plausibility.	+8 in Plausibility
	Onboard Political Party	16	Convince a political party to adopt misinformation as part of its policy making process, allowing it to inform their policies and manifestos. Significantly increase Plausibility.	+10 in Plausibility

Sources

• Fake News Stats - (Game File Name: fake_news.txt) (Extracted from Version 1.18.1.0 of Plague Inc.: Evolved (PC))
  • Note: All the information on this page was obtained by extracting the game files using external tools, in addition some variables have been transformed from decimals to percentages such as the requirement of infected or dead population for an action to be performed.