• bigmamoth@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game funded by the UK Home Office and created to deter young people aged 13-18 from being attracted to far right extremism in Yorkshire.

    Really funny to think that the taxpayer money were use to impeach critics by citizen of gouvernement policies only to backfire.

    “What we’re seeing is the monetisation of hate,” said Matteo Bergamini, the founder and CEO of Shout Out UK, a political and media literacy training company that created the original game.

    The game when it was online would report you for taking “wrong” decision. But thoses bootlicker think they were the right and just. Lmao. Reminder the uk put more ppl in prison for online post that russia and china combine

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      1 hour ago

      The game when it was online would report you for taking “wrong” decision

      Are you sure? The article seems to say it would have told you that your actions in the game scenario would have resulted in reporting, but the wording seems ambiguous.