Hideo Kojima Misidentified As Shinzo Abe Assassin By News Channel, Politicians
Screenshot: ANT TV 1 / Kotaku
Earlier as we speak, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shockingly assassinated. Then the web did its traditional shitty factor of constructing unhealthy jokes out of present occasions, and that ultimately led to a information station in Greece misidentifying well-known recreation developer Hideo Kojima because the murderer.
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Shortly after as we speak’s assassination, some shitty folks in a dank nook of the web joked that Abe’s suspected killer seemed like Kojima. Eventually, this reached Twitter, the place far-right French politician Damien Rieu—maybe not understanding that it was a joke—retweeted photographs of Kojima with a remark that interprets to “The extreme left kills,” serving to unfold it extra. While Rieu did ultimately delete the tweets, it appears the harm was already completed and may need helped mislead no less than one information station in Greece that lined the assassination.
During a phase in regards to the assault on Abe, the station aired photographs of Kojima and misidentified him because the suspected murderer. Here’s the clip beneath:
ANT1 TV
A viewer who contacted Kotaku in regards to the information broadcast helped translate what’s being mentioned throughout the half the place Kojima is proven on display screen.
Tetsuya has confessed to his actions to the police, admitting that he wished Abe useless as a result of he was disillusioned and upset with him. The police have discovered that he [the culprit] had served within the Navy Special Forces and taught a unit in Medical School on Physiotherapy for dementia sufferers. He was captivated with Che Guevara.
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It seems that some on-line—in addition to this information broadcast—are connecting the killer to Che Guevara based mostly completely on one of many photographs of Kojima, which reveals him standing subsequent to a picture of the well-known Cuban revolutionary chief.
And to be clear: No, Kojima isn’t the murderer, and the one motive this has develop into a factor is due to racists joking on-line that each one Japanese folks look the identical. A horrible instance of how shitty, offensive humor can have real-world penalties.
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Hideo Kojima has but to answer being misidentified because the killer of Shinzo Abe, however I can’t think about how horrible this example is for the Metal Gear creator. Over on ResetEra, the place a thread has developed about this example, many are calling the folks sharing this nonsense idiots and suggesting retailers and media corporations don’t rip their tales from 4chan or joke accounts on Twitter. Good recommendation!