A well established Russian disinformation operation appears to have set its sights on Stalker 2, the hotly anticipated shooter set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone that was developed in Ukraine while the country is actively fighting Russia’s invasion.
The campaign is spreading a fake vertical video with a WIRED watermark on Telegram and in emails directly to journalists, which falsely claims the game is being used to enlist more Ukrainian soldiers and is secretly collecting private data from players.
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