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[DryvBy]

The US Government is investing in ‘counter-disinformation’ video games

Citizens have discovered that the United States Government is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) in what they are calling "counter-disinformation" games. According to a funding…

nichegamer.com

According to a funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of State, $275,000 USD was earmarked by the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands for a pitch meeting these specifications:

1) produce an English- and Dutch-language pilot version of a counter-disinformation game (requirements below)

2) produce a French version of the game

3) produce one additional translation into a European, Asian, and/or African language, to be determined at a later date

4) host the game on the company’s own servers

5) develop and implement data collection and analysis methodologies to demonstrate the project’s achievement
of expected results

6) promote games to target audiences

When I was a kid, America's Army is what they created to promote recruitment. Now we get Dustturd or whatever that game was called?

Pathetic.

 

[HogIsland]

gee i wonder if existing US military propaganda games like Call of Duty play any role in shaping American opinion on for example The Russian Threat.

 

[Deerock71]

WTaF? Wouldn't counter-disinformation simply be...information?

 

[ManaByte]

America's Army

That game wasn’t that bad actually.

 

[RoboFu]

So propaganda then

 

[Draugoth]

USA Army tried many times making games and they all bombed

 

[jm89]

So propaganda then

Lol was gonna say the same thing. Nobody should fall for this shit.

 

[HogIsland]

That game wasn’t that bad actually.

you literally sit in a classroom and take exams

 

[ManaByte]

you literally sit in a classroom and take exams

No it was a FPS.

 

[HogIsland]

No it was a FPS.

first-person exam simulator:

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Counter disinformation in neolanguage means disinformation.

The last COD did it, when they included a real interview with the Russian defector that speaks about the communist infiltration in western society that is peaking today.

The trick is to associate real events to works of fiction so people believe they aren't true. Even worse, people believe they can't be true just because they appeared in a movie or videogame. It's a reverse logic successfully implemented by Hollywood.

 

[finalflame]

Makes sense, and yah, AA was actually a pretty sweet game at the time.

 

[ManaByte]

first-person exam simulator:

The game was a FPS. It was around for 20 years.

 

[lmimmfn]

Apparently Dustborn received this "grant"


They won't be collecting much data from that lol

 

[DryvBy]

you literally sit in a classroom and take exams

Persona?

 

[Herbspiceguy]

It always makes me wonder why governments are so concerned by disinformation to the extent they feel the need to actively fight it. Gives me totalitarian state vibes. Countries the west likes to point their finger to. Also, I'm not a fan of the term disinformation, as it can too easily be used to dismiss 'undiserable' information in the public forum, which doesn't necessarily has to be false.

 

[Stephen Curry]

Seems to be for educational purposes. Wonder how that would actually look in a game though?

 

[Denton]

Americans should not tolerate their government funding literal anti-american and anti-european propaganda.

 

[kevboard]

The US Government is investing in ‘counter-disinformation’ video games

Citizens have discovered that the United States Government is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) in what they are calling "counter-disinformation" games. According to a funding…

nichegamer.com

When I was a kid, America's Army is what they created to promote recruitment. Now we get Dustturd or whatever that game was called?

Pathetic.

America's Army 2... those were the times...

and then the released the successor which was horrendously unfinished and bad.

 

[simpatico]

Yeah because Dustborn was so popular.

 

[Stephen Curry]

It always makes me wonder why governments are so concerned by disinformation to the extent they feel the need to actively fight it. Gives me totalitarian state vibes. Countries the west likes to point their finger to. Also, I'm not a fan of the term disinformatoin itself, as it can be used to dismiss 'undiserable' information, which doesn't necessarily has to be false.

Because there is a substantial amount of evidence that foreign countries pump money into disinformation campaigns online. A lot of people are not savvy enough to distinguish between the two and it is becoming a large problem.

 

[fart town usa]

When I was a kid, America's Army is what they created to promote recruitment. Now we get Dustturd or whatever that game was called?

Pathetic.

I was gonna say the same thing about that Army game.

It's so insane how quickly the Western world has pivoted to authoritarian censorship. Legit frightening.

 

[HogIsland]

Americans should not tolerate their government funding literal anti-american and anti-european propaganda.

if you're going to subscribe a concept like "anti-american", then you have to accept that the US government defines "american". Better to just oppose propaganda and nationalism.

 

[LordCBH]

Fuck the US government and their “disinformation” made up bullshit.

 

[Bry0]

People eat up propaganda coming out of China and Russia and Iran all the time. Naive to think the west shouldn’t respond or that propaganda coming out of those countries isn’t self serving to THEIR geopolitical goals. The reality is that in the modern world state actors shape narratives you see every day. People who deem themselves “free thinkers” are often neck deep in some state backed narrative and don’t even seem to be cognizant of it because it’s “alternative” so it must be the truth!

 

[Fake]

DEI is not enough...

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

accept their funding

propose a "counter disinformation" game

final boss is the US intelligence agencies

 

[Puscifer]

USA Army tried many times making games and they all bombed

America's Army and Full Spectrum Warrior were tits

 

[HogIsland]

accept their funding

propose a "counter disinformation" game

final boss is the US intelligence agencies

The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973) - the videogame

 

[Unknown?]

Counter disinformation? So funding a game that counters all official statements by the government? Sounds good to me... Oh wait...

 

[CuckooBananaNuts]

And our country wonders why it's struggling to enlist new people into the military. This 1984 garbage needs to stop. That book was a warning, not a blueprint.

 

[Pagusas]

Counter disinformation? So funding a game that counters all official statements by the government? Sounds good to me... Oh wait...

I mean that's exactly what the government does, they've bene known to intentionally seed conspiracy theories just to make things sound too ridiculous to be credible and misdirect.

 

[Shifty1897]

USA Army tried many times making games and they all bombed

 

[Kings Field]

There was a retard in the other thread calling us conspiracy theorists because we don’t deep throat the government like he does.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

People eat up propaganda coming out of China and Russia and Iran all the time. Naive to think the west shouldn’t respond or that propaganda coming out of those countries isn’t self serving to THEIR geopolitical goals. The reality is that in the modern world state actors shape narratives you see every day. People who deem themselves “free thinkers” are often neck deep in some state backed narrative and don’t even seem to be cognizant of it because it’s “alternative” so it must be the truth!

Thanks for the enlightenment, the 8-year-old kids that post here hadn't noticed.

The difference between Chinese and Russian propaganda is that they defend their nationalistic interests, whereas Western propaganda ALSO serves the enemy's interests by shitting on Western values and promoting ideologies that erode OUR societies, not theirs. That's why you have movies like Oppenheimer funded by China criticizing the McCarthyism.

So, "our" propaganda is actually "their" propaganda, by spreading marxist bullshit written in the Cold War era.

So no, I reject whatever authoritarian DEI dystopia they want to promote.