{"id":1735025,"date":"2022-07-09T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/?post_type=station&#038;p=1735025"},"modified":"2022-07-09T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T14:41:57","slug":"kojima-productions-threatens-legal-action-after-hideo-kojima-is-falsely-identified-as-japanese-gunman","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/kojima-productions-threatens-legal-action-after-hideo-kojima-is-falsely-identified-as-japanese-gunman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Productions Threatens Legal Action After Hideo Kojima Is Falsely Identified as Japanese Gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Strongly condemns the spread of fake news<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\"first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/users\/4271\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"get2sammyb\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/users\/get2sammyb\">Sammy Barker<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>26 mins ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><\/figure>\n<p><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-62106442\">Earlier this week<\/a>, a 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami shot dead the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a political rally with a handmade firearm. As the news reverberated through social media \u2013 and, subsequently, national television stations \u2013 photographs of <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/metal_gear_solid\">Metal Gear Solid<\/a> creator Hideo Kojima were falsely attributed to the assassin. Kojima Productions has now spoken out against the spread of \u201cfake news\u201d and has suggested it may take legal action.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KojimaProductions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KojimaProductions<\/a> strongly condemns the spread of fake news and rumors that convey false information. We do not tolerate such libel and will consider taking legal action in some cases. <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fDi0FR9kB0\">pic.twitter.com\/fDi0FR9kB0<\/a><\/span>\u2014 KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN) <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1545751079685484544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cKojima Productions strongly condemns the spread of fake news and rumors that convey false information,\u201d <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1545751079685484544\">a statement said<\/a>. \u201cWe do not tolerate such libel and will consider taking legal action in some cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The real irony here is that 2001\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/psvita\/metal_gear_solid_hd_collection\">Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of the Patriots<\/a> \u2013 arguably Kojima\u2019s most famous game \u2013 was all about misinformation in the digital era, and now he finds himself a victim of it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1545751079685484544\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1545751079685484544\">twitter.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/dumbfuck-french-fascist-politician-mistook-hideo-kojima-for-ex-pm-shinzo-abes-shooter.605427\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/dumbfuck-french-fascist-politician-mistook-hideo-kojima-for-ex-pm-shinzo-abes-shooter.605427\/\">resetera.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735026,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[78],"artist":[17490],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18744,18711,7387,18723,18119,10610,177,18710,18750,18732,3862,9445,18726,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,5227,18749,14124,16767,3702,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1735025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1735025"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1735025"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1735025"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1735025"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1735025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}