You may have seen it on social media, several videos circulating, taken from ARMA 3. However, these are not put forward to be from a video game, but to misinform on certain facts, in particular for the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. To do prevention, but also to remember that all information must be verified before being shared, the Czech company released a video to show how a simple video game footage can become a “fake news” video.
It is by seeing the extent that these videos can take that the studio, which is working hard on DayZ, ARMA 3 and ARMA Reforger, has decided to speak out to warn its community and as many people as possible.
While it is gratifying that ARMA 3 can simulate modern armed conflicts in such a realistic way, we are certainly not happy that it can be mistaken for real combat images and used for military propaganda purposes as part of of an armed conflict. This has happened in the past (Arma 3 videos would have depicted conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and even between India and Pakistan), but today this content has taken off. magnitude in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. We have tried to fight against this type of content by reporting these videos to platform providers (FB, YT, TW, IG, etc.), but it is not very effective. For every video taken down, ten more are uploaded every day. We have found that the best way to solve this problem is to actively cooperate with major news outlets and fact-checking agencies (like AFP, Reuters and others), which have a better reach and ability to effectively tackle the spread of this misleading information.
– Pavel Krizkapublic relations manager of Bohemia Interactive.
As you can see in the video above, it can be quite easy to fall into the trap, if we don’t really pay attention to the details. So, to avoid being fooled, Bohemia Interactive says that if the resolution is very low, the camera shakes a lot, there is no sound and no people are moving, it is likely that the video will not be not real. In any case, we must always be wary of what we can read and see on the Internet.