Russia's disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential election rocked social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to its core.
The goal is not to launch a new flurry of hoaxes and chaos on social media for the 2020 US presidential election.
It's to teach the next generation of voters about how easily fraud erupts social media, and break down the tools foreign actors use to spread disinformation, Nico Sell, the co-founder of r00tz, said.
"They hear a lot about fake news out there -- these are things that we want to show them, the exact mechanics of how things really work."
This is the second year that the r00tz Asylum's challenge will be focused on politics, after kid hackers at Defcon 2018 learned how to hack into websites simulating state election results.
First, the Voting Village will be teaching kids how to hack simulated campaign finance websites and alter documents.