CNN uses pictures from Fallout 4 to showcase Russian hacking

Of course, we had to start the new year with another news channel falling for using video games pictures as real world evidences.

It became quite common with a news outlet allowing such thing every now and then like the crashed helicopter from CoD4: Modern Warfare, Metal Gear Solid V child soldiers, Middle of Honor footage and more.

Today’s news has CNN  using footage of a Fallout 4 computer in a story about Russian hacking Obama’s government. What’s funny in here is that for one, the computers in Fallout 4 are not connected to the internet: in Bethesda’s alternative history, America never makes it that far into the future.

Another obstacle stopping Russia from hacking America via the computers in Fallout 4 is that, no matter how you approach it, it’d simply be impossible.

You can find the CNN footage, noticed by Redditor Poofylicious at around the one minute mark in the first video over here.