More than a dozen instances of pro-Kremlin propaganda were found in Minecraft, Roblox and other games. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In Minecraft, the immersive game owned by Microsoft, Russian players reenacted the battle forposting a video of the game on their country’s most popular social media network, VKontakte.
These games and adjacent discussion sites such as Discord and Steam are becoming online platforms for Russian agitprop, circulating to new, mostly younger audiences a torrent of propaganda that the Kremlin has used to try to justify the war in Ukraine. “The gaming world is really a platform that can impact public opinion, to reach an audience, especially young populations,” said Ms Tanya Bekker, a researcher at ActiveFence, a cybersecurity company that identified several examples of Russian propaganda on Minecraft for The New York Times.
“In truth, it’s not the number one thing we should worry about,” Mr Smith said at an economic conference in Washington organised by Semafor, the news site.
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