Roblox is a true sandbox game that lets players do just about anything - but infiltrating White House press briefings probably wasn't on the design document when its developers began working on it. But one Roblox player seems to have done exactly that - beginning with a government roleplay group, a player developed an online persona that's managed to pose questions directly to the US president's press secretary.
Politico has the full story of 'Kacey Montagu,' a name that's popped up several times in White House press briefings with Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki. This person doesn't exist, as the story explains - it's the name of a persona for a person whose identity is unclear.
Montagu began, it seems, in a Roblox role-playing group called nUSA, which is dedicated to simulating a fictional US government the way that high school students will sometimes participate in a 'mock UN' exercise. From there, they created an email address for the persona, as well as Twitter accounts that re-publish widely available information (such as the vice president's daily schedule) to burnish the persona's credentials as an official reporter.
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