About this episode

Arthur Snell interviews George Osborn about the exploitation of video games by authoritarians for geopolitical advantage.

It was my pleasure to speak to George Osborn, expert on video games, about how this artform, which is used by over 3 billion people worldwide, has been weaponised and exploited by extremists, populists and authoritarians. I confess to knowing nothing about video games, but found this whole subject fascinating and I hope you do too. If you would like to support this podcast please consider taking out a paid subscription to my Substack arthursnell.substack.com or if you don't want the hassle of a subscription you can buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/snellarthur If you want to buy any of the books talked about in this show, please support independent bookshops by using Bookshop.org with this link: ⁠https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/behindthelines⁠ Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Arthur Snell

Guest: George Osborn

Topics covered

• video games
• authoritarianism
• geopolitics
• extremism
• populism

Keywords

• video games
• authoritarianism
• geopolitical advantage
• extremists
• populists

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