Facebook regrets promoting ‘Bullet Train’ game
San Francisco: Facebook has apologised, saying it regrets promoting a Virtual Reality (VR) shooting game named "Bullet Train" on its stand at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference 2018 (CPAC) in the US, a week after 17 students were killed in a Florida school shooting.
The social media giant's move came after it faced criticism for featuring a violent game so closely after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
"In light of the recent events in Florida and out of respect for the victims and their families, we have removed the game from the demo. We regret that we failed to do so in the first place," " Hugo Barra, Vice President, Facebook of Virtual Reality said.
"Bullet Train" is a short proof-of-concept shooting game developed by Epic Games in 2015.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Scribe thrashed for speaking to women claiming they were paid to attend Amit Shah rally: Priyanka
Raebareli (UP), May 12: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday alleged that a journalist was thrashed at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's rally for speaking to women who told him that they were paid to attend the programme.
In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi said, "@moliticsindia journalist Raghav Trivedi was brutally beaten up by BJP men at the home minister's rally in Rae Bareli. The home minister kept speaking and the police kept watching as mute spectators. The journalist was beaten up only because he had spoken to some women who were saying that they were paid to attend the rally."
"The BJP, which has silenced the media in the entire country, cannot tolerate any voice being raised against them. The BJP, which is running a campaign to abolish the Constitution, wants to end democracy in the country and snatch the people's voice," she added.
Priyanka Gandhi also shared a video of the journalist in hospital.
Shah attended a rally in Rae Bareli in support of BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also contesting from the seat.
Sadar SHO Rajesh Singh said an FIR has been registered on the basis of a complaint by Sanjeet Sahni, who alleged that Trivedi was thrashed by some people after Shah's rally.
The FIR has been registered against five to six unidentified persons under sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntary causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intention to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code, he said.
Congress leader and former Chhatisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel later visited the journalist in hospital.
"Rahgav (Trivedi) is saying they (crowd) thought he belonged to a different religion as he has a beard and beat him up," Baghel said and alleged that the police did not save him.
रायबरेली में गृहमंत्री जी की सभा में भाजपा के लोगों द्वारा @moliticsindia के पत्रकार राघव त्रिवेदी को बेरहमी से पीटा गया। गृहमंत्री जी भाषण देते रहे और पुलिस मूकदर्शक बनी देखती रही। पत्रकार को सिर्फ इसलिए पीटा गया क्योंकि उन्होंने कुछ महिलाओं से बात की थी जो कह रही थीं कि सभा में… pic.twitter.com/VKjgVL7hF1
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 12, 2024
