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Shoot-'Em-Up Videogames Don't Warp Minds?Big Tech Does


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For example, one Washington Post study from March found that “counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.”The misplaced focus on violence leaking from pretend digital worlds to the real world misses the glaring digital influence we’re subjected to every day: Silicon Valley companies manipulating users, trying to shape their behavior online and off to make money. The makers of Grand Theft Auto V recently internalized that strategy with an audacious plan to have an operational casino within its online extension, including slot machines, horse racing, blackjack, and poker.Your avatar walks into the Diamond Casino in the mythical city of Los Santos and buys chips with the money you’ve collected doing bad deeds within the game itself. The makers of Grand Theft Auto know that they can’t extract money from you if you get bored and stop playing.Facebook, too, is promoting a virtual currency, Libra, to encourage transactions within its platform. And, yes, there is a potential for Facebook to make money directly from handling the currency—it relates to the value of reserves of money held while transactions are carried out.But, again, the real money for Facebook is likely to come from having the platform become more and more indispensable, leading to users spending more time on it and thus seeing ads.

As said here by Noam Cohen