{"id":29650,"date":"2018-02-24T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/24\/facebook-sees-backlash-after-demoing-vr-shooter-game-at-conservative-event\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T23:56:10","slug":"facebook-sees-backlash-after-demoing-vr-shooter-game-at-conservative-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29650","title":{"rendered":"Facebook sees backlash after demoing VR shooter game at conservative event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the Florida massacre, the company expresses \u2018regret\u2019 over its decision to bring the game to CPACFacebook is facing backlash for bringing a virtual reality shooting game to a rightwing conference where the National Rifle Association (NRA) has promoted gun rights in the wake of a Florida school shooting. The social media company, which has since removed the demonstration game and expressed \u201cregret\u201d, was already facing scrutiny for attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a high-profile event that featured speeches attacking gun control advocates and a renewed call from Donald Trump to arm school teachers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/feb\/23\/facebook-cpac-vr-shooting-game-backlash-remove-florida\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook sees backlash after demoing VR shooter game at conservative event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the Florida massacre, the company expresses \u2018regret\u2019 over its decision to bring the game to CPACFacebook is facing backlash for bringing a virtual reality shooting game to a rightwing conference where the National Rifle Association (NRA) has promoted gun rights in the wake of a Florida school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}