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US Gov’t Funding 'Disinformation' (online) Video Game 'Cat Park,' Leaked State Dept Memo Reveals​

“With the Internet, only two things are certain: the global appeal of cat videos and the pervasiveness of disinformation.”

So begins a government memorandum recently circulated by the US State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) titled: “Cat Park – A New Online Game to Inoculate Youth Against Disinformation,” recently obtained by America First Legal and reviewed by Foundation for Freedom Online.

The memo, dated Oct. 31, 2022, details a government plan to roll out a new taxpayer-funded online game called Cat Park. The game is billed as a product that “inoculates players against real world disinformation by showing how sensational headlines, memes, and manipulated media can be used to advance conspiracy theories and incite real-world violence.”
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Inoculation Theory

As the leaked GEC memo makes clear, the exercises and subliminally embedded messaging contained in Cat Park are deliberately based on so-called “inoculation theory.”

“Much as vaccinations work by exposing subjects to an innocuous strain of a virus in order to trigger an immune response”, the GEC memo says, “empirical studies indicate that the controlled experience of responding to disinformation through a game can build cognitive resistance to disinformation in the real world. This concept is also known as 'pre-bunking.'”
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The game will be available in Chinese and Russian as well.
 
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