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Displaying all articles tagged:
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July 13, 2018
Gamergate Reddit Forum Founder Tries to Shut Down Monster of His Own Creation
Reddit’s Kotaku in Action was temporarily taken offline on Thursday night.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Nov. 27, 2017
Companies Should Ignore Angry Online Mobs More
New research shows that just because a small group of people are mad at you online, that doesn’t mean the wider, normie-r world is.
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Jesse Singal
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July 26, 2017
The Woman Targeted by Gamergate on Surviving a World-Altering Trolling Attack
Zoë Quinn spent much of her life playing and designing games. Then she found herself inside one – a vicious, multiplayer real-time harassment bonanza.
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Noreen Malone
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June 12, 2017
All the Games and Memes You Need to Know About From Yesterday’s E3
What Microsoft, EA, and Bethesda announced.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 30, 2017
The Whole World Is Now a Message Board
And its moderators are the meme vanguard of the alt-right.
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Max Read
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Sept. 30, 2016
Why the Video-Game Culture Wars Won’t Die, Two Years After Gamergate
Video-game culture warriors have a different, more fraught relationship to their hobby than other people do.
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Jesse Singal
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July 22, 2016
Why Won’t Video-Game Companies Even Talk About Employee Harassment?
A weird balancing act in not annoying your own fans.
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Jesse Singal
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May 16, 2016
Why a Video of Someone Playing ‘Doom’ (Poorly) Became a Culture-War Issue
Those damn social-justice warriors need to learn how to strafe and shoot at the same time.
By
Jesse Singal
May 6, 2016
‘Pounded in the Butt’ Literary Genius Trolls Right-Wing Sci-fi Nerds
The author of
Space Raptor Butt Invasion
strikes back.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 18, 2016
How Social Autopsy Fell for GamerGate Trutherism
“Their network runs deep. So who knows? I don’t know how deep this goes.”
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Jesse Singal
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Apr. 12, 2016
Brave Free-Speech Crusaders Create Super Helpful Enemies List
Such lists have done great good in the past.
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Jesse Singal
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Mar. 30, 2016
Gamergate May Have Just Won Its Most Disgraceful Scalp Yet (Updated)
A young Nintendo employee just lost her job, likely due to her undergraduate thesis and an intense online harassment campaign from Gamergate.
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Jesse Singal
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Dec. 2, 2015
No, the British Government Isn’t Treating GamerGate Like a Terror Group
Journalism, Breitbart Tech–style.
By
Jesse Singal
Nov. 4, 2015
Is This the Perfect Insane Anti-Feminist Rumor?
A shadowy cabal of women are conspiring to entrap men and manufacture rape allegations, says one guy, according to this other guy he heard it from.
By
Jesse Singal
Oct. 27, 2015
BuzzFeed to Withdraw From SXSW After the Cancellation of Gamer-Harassment Panels
SXSW canceled the discussions on harassment … because of harassment.
By
Elaine Godfrey
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May 28, 2015
Let Ted Cruz Play Video Games
He really wants to.
By
Jessica Roy
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Dec. 19, 2014
#Gamergate Is Reportedly Being Investigated by the FBI
Actually, it’s about ethics in death threats.
By
Jessica Roy
Oct. 27, 2014
Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend
How 8Chan celebrated its first birthday.
By
Adrian Chen