WASHINGTON, Jan 2 — Troops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverise tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat,...
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 — Troops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverise tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video games fuelling misinformation.video game, often marked “live” or “breaking news” to make it appear genuine, has been used repeatedly in recent months in fake videos about the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
“As video game visuals get more sophisticated, CGI can, at a quick glance, look real. People need to know how to verify imagery, including looking at metadata so that these mistakes don’t get made, especially by newsrooms.”, whose Czech-based developers promise “true combat game play in a massive military sandbox,” allows players to create various battlefield scenarios using aircraft, tanks and a host of weapons.
Bohemia Interactive said the misleading videos have recently “gained traction” in regard to the conflict in Ukraine. “Secondary disseminators will be gullible people who pick up this content and circulate it in an attempt to garner fake internet points.”
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