How are video games being used to create misinformation and what can be done about it?

I chatted with Eliot Higgins from Bellingcat for this week's Video Games Industry Memo about this AND how his job's a bit like playing Hypnospace Outlaw.

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The Brits recently added themselves to the list of 64 countries heading to the polls in 2024. Citizens in #SouthAfrica are voting today! We asked our Bellingcat researchers what they do to inform themselves during the elections and how they avoid online disinformation...

The policy of PayPal outlines that its service cannot be used for “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.” But When Bellingcat contacted ( with examples ) PayPal, A service used by three of the four far-right propaganda

Super article by Pooja about how extreme-right Indian websites are getting money from beyond Indian shores, and how the Government isn't acting despite that being a clear violation of Indian laws. This includes OpIndia.

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