The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent
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It is suspiciously similar to "The Republia Times" a flash game (Already ported to HTML5) by Lucas Pope the creator of "Papers Please" and "The Return of the Obra Dinn". See: www.dukope.com
The games creator attributes it for inspiration.
There are a lot of games like this, Headliner comes to mind for me.