Why a decade-old video game still fuels social media hoaxes

Why a decade-old video game still fuels social media hoaxes

The NewsLast week, as coverage of the hostilities between Pakistan and India devolved into a morass of confusion, jingoism, and out-of-context videos, one of the social media era’s most intransigent hoaxes got a high-profile boost. On May 8, the Pakistani government’s official X account posted a tightly-edited propaganda video that led with an anti-aircraft gun shooting at a jet — a clip taken from a 2013 video game called gameplay masquerading …