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Not just a game: The dark reality behind the White House’s new ‘arcade’
What happened
The White House launched an online “arcade” whose games package administration messages as entertainment. AlterNet highlights “Rio Run,” a Snake-style game in which a border guard accumulates a growing trail of arrested migrants, alongside games promoting healthy school lunches and a “Trump savings account.”
Scott DeJong, a Concordia University communication-studies researcher and game designer, argues that these titles are built to advance simple political claims, not to explain policy. Unlike earlier government-funded games intended to teach users how disinformation works, the…
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