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Media Illiteracy and the SonicJihad Debacle

Quick recap: a year and half ago, Reuters reported on a congressional briefing in which modders had turned Battlefield 2 into a terrorist training game. The report confused a lot of people, including Kotaku, because most of the details were incorrect. The truth was, the mod wasn’t even a game, it was a satirical send-up that used footage from Battlefield and soundtrack dubs from Team America: World Police.