A new automated script was written. It would scan new articles for "orphaned" citations—sources that appear only once on the entire web. If a citation existed nowhere else but in Moskvin’s articles, it was flagged as suspicious.
Yet, across Reddit forums, YouTube comment sections, and gaming discords, users are asking if the "Nikita Moskvin issue" has been "patched" in various games, specifically in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. modding scene and, confusingly, in Escape from Tarkov (developed by Battlestate Games, whose COO is also named Nikita—a coincidence that fuels the confusion). nikita moskvin patched