Brodigan - April 12, 2021 at 07:22AM
Roblox is a popular video game where users create their own virtual reality. My niece has a pet dragon she is very proud of. You can do all sorts of wacky things. Including, it appears, infiltrating the White House press corps with some fake Twitter accounts and a lot of free time on your hands. Kacey Montagu is the chief political correspondent for the "White House News." Reporters asked questions on Kacey's behalf since she couldn't attend briefings due to COVID protocols. Kacey is also the former secretary of state of nUSA. Because Kacey is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER.
Montagu's White House moonlighting began as something to boast about in the online global gaming platform called ROBLOX, where users jokingly call themselves "Legos." Within that platform is a role-playing group called nUSA, where people from across the world engage in a mock U.S. government exercise. At one point, Montagu had adopted the role of Secretary of State but resigned from that job after — as they recalled — "the [nUSA] President went to war with some U.K. and I thought it was a pretty bad idea!"
The ease with which Kacey did this is both remarkable and disturbing. She created two Twitter accounts that have since been suspended: @WHschedule and @WHpoolreport. The accounts tweeted the schedule of the president, the vice president, and the two spouses. The accounts were so efficient that they "got attention from insiders" and were followed by multiple White House correspondents AND White House officials.
Kacey started communicating with reporters and even got some to ask questions on her behalf. Again, because she "couldn't be there." White House officials had even circled back to Montagu with more information. On Thursday, Montagu was able to plant a question with a Washington Blade reporter: "How involved is former President Obama and First Lady Obama in the Biden – Harris administration? Is President Biden seeking to bring back the often bipartisan portrait unveiling events at the White House?" It was asked of Jen Psaki. Psaki had been unknowingly answering the imposter's questions for weeks.
This was when the jig was up. POLITICO started investigating who this Kacey Montagu was. While Kacey didn't reveal who she was, she did reveal her motives:
"I love journalism, and I think the Press Corps is doing a pretty bad job at the moment, so I decided I would ensure some transparency and ask some questions me and some friends wanted the answer to."
There's no better conclusion to this story. Having the press corps and the White House infiltrated by a video game character with a Twitter account is bad enough. Scrape off the number of eggs on everyone's face, and you could make a ginormous frittata. But the fact that the person behind the fictional character did this because they think the press corps suck at their jobs? The only way it could get more perfect is after the media doxxes "Kacey," which you know they're going to do, and we find out "Kacey" is a 13-year-old with too much time on his or her hands.
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