Makualax

I know for a fact that Azerbijan kicked up their bot brigades on reddit as soon as they invaded Artsakh last year. The reason it's so obvious is because Azerbijan shut off their entire internet for their citizens at the beginning of the war, yet accounts posing as Azeri citizens would still brigade any post related to the conflict with misinformation and threats towards ethnic Armenians in the area

Thank you so much for fighting a fight that nobody seems to care about.

This brings to mind the struggle of Maria Ressa and other Phillipino journalists whose articles are bombarded with hate, threatening rape and murder of their family members, whenever anything is said to criticize Duerte and the Phillipino government.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953902894/philippine-journalist-says-rodrigo-dutertes-presidency-is-based-on-fear-violence

How do you think this will affect the landscape of political dissent in the future, and what can we do to stop it?

Edit: it's also important to point out that Azerbijan was using bot brigades to silence awareness and cause misinformation regarding their attempted ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, an Armenian-majority cultural center. The bots would brigade and instagram and reddit posts that included video evidence of Azeri warcrimes and also would find the accounts of families who lived in Artsakh and brigade them with threats of rape and torture.

Kurds in particular, being a majority in many towns in the North of Iran, have faced harsh persecution by the regime historically. There's an entire northeast portion of Iran that is 100% Kurdish and many quietly support an independent Kurdistan.

How did you get into writing/developing video games?

How do you think storytelling in video games differs from that of books/movies/tv/word of mouth?

What advice do you have to those who have ideas and ambitions but don't know where to start in a field like video game development?