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  • 2017-11-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Does a 'Call of Duty: WWII' Still Show Two Men Hanging From a Tree? (en)
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  • In November 2017, an image purportedly showing a screenshot from popular video game Call of Duty: WWII which shows two lynched men hanging from a tree was circulated on social media along with calls for a boycott of the Activision game. The image is real. YouTube user TmarTn2 uploaded several videos of himself playing Call of Duty: WWII shortly after its release in November 2017. (The scene can be glimpsed at the 13:40 mark here.) However, the still does not show the dialogue between the two soldiers: We reached out to the two companies behind the game, Activision and Sledgehammer Games, for additional comment on the scene. Sledgehammer Games senior creative director Bret Robbins previously commented on some of the disturbing imagery: (en)
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