CNN Used Fallout Computer Game To Show Russian Hacking To U.S.

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A highly-classified assessment released by the U.S. intelligence community last January 06, laid out its judgement that Vladimir Putin who ordered to influence the U.S. election campaign in 2016 aiming at the U.S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, to harm her electability and potential presidency.

Per statement of the State Department Spokesman John Kirby to the CNN, "the U.S. administration is 100% certain in the role that Russia played in election-related hacking." Kirby also added that "there is no question about what Russia did to sow doubt and confusion and getting involved through the cyber domain into our electoral process."

However, despite this crucial incident happened in the U.S. system, a computer-hacking mini game still managed to depict the real-life hacks committed by Russian government.

While Mitchel Thompson creator of Fallout 4's terminal hacking game, CNN used the game's hacked computer monitor video in their reports about Russia using cyber technology to hacked US. It has the perfect match for the portion of the visible text from the CNN clip and the once found in the game. This rise to the majority of the public questioning the validity of the CNN informative news.

 This similarity was first spotted by one Poofylicious on Reddit, who put together the images found in the game and in the actual CNN video clip.

According to Kotaku, the footage in question occurs around a minute into the video while the reporter discusses President-elect Donald Trump's reaction to Moscow's alleged involvement as the White House called "Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities".

But Trump said in his statement, "I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think the computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on.

In the article from Kotaku, CNN certainly is not the first news agency to incorporate video games into their coverage of global news affairs. Years back, BBC report used the UNSC symbol from Halo, a first-person shooter game from a protagonist's perspective, while talking about United Nations. Also, child soldiers from the Metal Gear games, a stealth action video game, have been used in news stories about actual child soldiers.

It seems to be a struggle to what to show in the background in broadcast news when discussing computers and its programs and softwares, and hacking. "But that is understandable to a degree" according to Kotaku.