During the Italian morning, the former premier Japanese Shinzo Abe was fatally wounded by 41-year-old former military man Tetsuya Yamagami and, shortly after, the web was flooded with dozens of photos of Hideo Kojima. The reason is tragicomic: the famous video game author has been mistaken for the killer.
It was not just an oversight of some news sites or newspapers. Many politicians, such as the French Damien Rieu, following the news of Abe’s assassination, posted a series of photos that, according to him, identified Kojima as a far-left exponent.
In fact, in one of the photos the author was portrayed together with a photo of Ché Guevara, one of the symbols of the communist ideology. This photo literally traveled around the world, passing through the media of the Middle East and even appearing on a news program in Greece. Unbelievable.
Obviously, the unfortunate Hideo Kojima has nothing to do with the murder of Shinzo Abe. It was just a sensational mistake because, as mentioned, the killer who ended the life of the former Japanese prime minister is the former military man Tetsuya Yamagami who later declared that his actions did not they had no political orientation.
What happened today in Kojima is only the latest in a series of sensational exchanges of person. A lot of innocent people’s faces made headlines or got hit on television due to a lousy search for the correct images. Laziness, lack of accuracy are the ingredients of this sensational oversight.
The confusion generated by this sensational mistake has left the world public, especially those passionate about gaming, in chaos. Fortunately for Kojima, everything came back after a few hours and without leaving any further aftermath in a tragic day for Japan and beyondfor the civilized world everything.
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