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Activision to Pull Real Seoul Tragedy Footage From 'Call of Duty' After Families Demand Removal

Headline from Latin Times

Activision apologized for using real footage of Seoul's 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and said an update will remove it on November 12.

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  1. The Guardian

    Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game (opens The Guardian)

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    Bereaved families have urged the publisher of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 to remove a clip from the game that shows a figure performing CPR and bodies lying in the street Bereaved families in South Korea have demanded that the makers of Call of Duty remove harrowing footage of the deadly 2022 Seo…

  2. BBC News

    Bereaved families appalled by footage of Seoul crush in Call of Duty (opens BBC News)

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    BBC News's feed description

    Modern Warfare 4 uses video from the Itaewon crush to show the aftermath of an imagined North Korean attack.

  3. BBC News

    Footage of Seoul crush to be removed from Call of Duty after backlash (opens BBC News)

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    BBC News's feed description

    Bereaved families say they were appalled to see footage of the Itaewon disaster included in Modern Warfare 4.

  4. NBC News

    Outcry prompts ‘Call of Duty’ to cut Seoul tragedy footage (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News's feed description

    American video game publisher Activision said Friday that it was removing controversial footage from its newly released “Call of Duty” game after an outcry in South Korea over the inclusion of real-life footage from a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush in Seoul.

  5. Latin Times

    Activision to Pull Real Seoul Tragedy Footage From 'Call of Duty' After Families Demand Removal (opens Latin Times)

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    Latin Times's feed description

    Activision apologized for using real footage of Seoul's 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and said an update will remove it on November 12.

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