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Among Us Hit by Spam Attack Following AOC StreamRecently, US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) engaged with the voting public via a big Twitch stream in which she played the party game/treachery simulator Among Us. Not long after, the game was plagued by a spam attack that launched a bevy of pro-Republican messages to players, which seems … possibly related. Players found themselves locked out of games and instead spammed with messages telling them to "subscribe to Eris Loris" along with an endorsement of President Trump. According to IGN, the attack crippled the game for a time while InnerSloth, its developers, worked to push an emergency update.
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