via YouTube/InnerslothScience & TechNewsScience & Tech / NewsDays after AOC’s Among Us stream, the game is hit with a pro-Trump hackPlayers have reported an IRL impostor spamming messages in support of Donald TrumpShareLink copied ✔️October 25, 2020October 25, 2020TextThom Waite This week, hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in to watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play the viral video game Among Us on Twitch, with an all-star cast brought together with the help of Chelsea Manning and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Just days after the wholesome footage aired though, Among Us has been targeted with a massive hack that spams players with messages in support of Donald Trump. In case you’re still catching up, Among Us is a murder mystery-style game set in space, which sees up to ten players join a lobby. One or two of these players are impostors, and try to murder the others without getting found out – the innocent have to work together to complete tasks and vote to kick suspicious players off the ship. When AOC joined a lobby earlier this week – alongside Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her daughter, the climate activist Isra Hirsi – it provided the perfect opportunity to garner support for the Democrats in the upcoming election with jokes about voting (namely: orange sus, vote him out). First reported on Thursday evening, however, the hacker spammed pro-Trump messages in the in-game chat, through other players’ avatars. Besides political messages, they also promoted various online accounts under the same handle: “subscribe to eris loris.” bruh im just trying to play among us. fuck eris loris and fuck trump period pic.twitter.com/RnY2zCkcYS— taylor (@tayclevv) October 23, 2020 In response to hundreds of screenshots of the hack shared via Twitter, the Among Us developers InnerSloth have rolled out “emergency maintenance”. In a Twitter post, they advise users to remain careful for the time being, writing: “Please play private games or with people that you trust!” Reminder!! Please play private games or with people that you trust!!! We're doing what we can!!— InnerSloth (@InnerslothDevs) October 23, 2020Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORECould the iPhone 15 Pro kill the video game console?Is Atlantis resurfacing? Unpacking the internet’s latest big conspiracyVCARBMeet the young creatives VCARB is getting into F1Elon Musk’s Neuralink has reportedly killed 1,500 animals in four yearsCould sex for procreation soon be obsolete?Here are all the ways you can spot fake news on TikTokWhy these meme admins locked themselves to Instagram’s HQ Why did this chess-playing robot break a child’s finger?Twitter and Elon Musk are now officially at warAre we heading for a digital amnesia epidemic?Deepfake porn could soon be illegalMeet Oseanworld, the internet artist tearing up the metaverse rulebook