The app had become a viral hit, despite never becoming more than an invite-only service, with tens of thousands of users and a constant clamour for invitation codes from others. But it had also faced an increasing amount of criticism over the nature of its game, which involves playing at buying and selling the Twitter accounts of real people – most of whom had never signed up to the game.
The central gameplay of Stolen involved accumulating a virtual currency, which players then used to “buy” other people’s Twitter accounts. It sparked criticism from commentators including Gadgette’s Holly Brockwell and the Guardian’s Leigh Alexander, who pointed out the distastefulness of the app’s tone: when a user is “stolen”, a banner appears declaring that they “belong to you now”.
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Lawyers for News Group Newspapers, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s UK print business, told a High Court hearing that a “new flank” of hacking claims had been opened against Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid. The potential inclusion of The Sun in the third tranche of phone-hacking civil actions – which had previously all related to its sister paper the NOTW – could leave the company facing substantial extra compensation payouts.
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