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![Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
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![EXPOSED: THE SECRET MAILING LIST OF THE GAMING JOURNALISM ELITE On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Kyle Orland ckyle.odand f you are behind on the appaling dooing attempt against her The very irst paragraph of that "This has nothing to do with games and not a matter of legitimate public interest, tut is simply a personal matter I would hope and request that the games press be respectul of what IS a personal matter, and not news. This is explicity about my private life, which has been regrettably foroed into the public and framed by peopla who pose a threat to my safety and well being as wall as that of the people I lave. I would hope hat the effort people have gone through to dress it up as anything more would not be enough to have these who see it for what is take understand where Quinn is coming from, and want to respect her desine for privacy. At the same time, I do feel that there is some egitimate public interest in a game developer being atacked by "the intemet. 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Maybe we shouid get a public latter of support going around decrying these as we can, Maybe we should just use this as an excuse by MILO YIANNOPOULOS 7 Sep 2o14, PM PDT ing journalists acro veral prominent g are part of a secret mailing list on which they discuss what to cover, what to ignore, and what approach their coverage should take to breaking news, Breitbart can High-profile editors, reporters, and reviewers from heavyweight gaming news sites such as Polygon, Ars Technica, and Kotaku use the private Google Groups mailing list, which is to s industry ourno attitudes to events, such as the revelation that developer Zoe Quinn had a sexual at one a journalist who had mentioned her and her products in his reporting. Emails seen by Breitbart from August of this year show Kyle Orland, a senior gaming editor at Ars Technica, discussing the Zoe Quinn scandal. He wrote: "I don't want to in essence reward the jerks doing this by giving their 'issue' any attention at all.. I'm not even going to give the b------- journalism ethics' excuse for these attacks the time of day Orland continued: "I would LOVE to use my platform to reproach this kind of behavior but that would go against Quinn's valid and understandable desire not to have this persona matter publicized by the media... Maybe we should just stick to Twitter to boost the signal on this one, rather than our front "Maybe we should get a public letter of support going around decrying these kinds of wrote. "Maybe we should just use this as an excuse to give more attention to her work... I ve meaning to review Depression Quest since its Steam release." On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Kyle Orland ckyle.odand f you are behind on the appalling doxoing attempt against he The very Srst paragraph of that statement: This has nothing to do with games and is not a matter of legiimate public interest, but is simply a personal matter. 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Maybe we should just stick to Twitter to boost the signal on this one, rather than our ont pages!Ounn seemed initially OK with people retweeing her statement hittswiter.com/TheQuinspiracy status/501644035593748481) but ther she took down the original Tumbir pest, so who knows). Maybe we should get a public latter of support going around decrying tese kinds of personal attacks, signed by as many sympathetic journalists/developers as we can. Maybe we should just use this as an excuse The sight of journalists not only engaging in activism on behalf of their reporting subjects but also discouraging other reporters and editors from covering stories of interest to their bias and unusual levels of co-operation and co-ordination from senior journalists. Polygon editor Ben Kuchera is seen on the list offering support to Quinn and chiding other On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ben Kuchera <ben ' I wrote: to who have long This is the thread: http://www.escapistmagazine.c Someone signed up for an Escapist account just to post that thread, and try to spread alleged details of someone's sexual past in order to shame them. I'm not sure what your definition of harassment is, but that On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Ben Kuchera <ben This is the question: People are using your platform to harass a developer. Are you comfortable with that? wrote: You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Game Journalismm To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to To post too at hittp: group. seen editors to take down material on their websites that is critical of Zoe Quinn and to close down debate about her role in the video games industry by removing comments and forum posts by members of the public asking questions about journalistic propriety Jason Schreier, a senior writer at Kotaku, can be seen defending Nathan Grayson, the journalist who admitted to beginning a sexual relationship with Zoe Quinn just days after he mentioned her in his reporting and linking to her game, Depression Quest. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Jason Schreier cischreier u employee who reviewed her not true EDIT: Oh, and then there's the fact that the blog post by Nathan Grayson has apparently been taken down. They're seriously trying to hide it, from my point of view." This is also not true. Nathan has never reviewed or written about Depression Quest for Kotaku. Also on the secret mailing list are James Fudge, managing editor of GamePolitics.com, and Mike Wehner, a writer for the Daily Dot, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, USA Today, and Yahoo, demonstrating that the list has influence within the mainstream media as well. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:09 AM, James Fudge cjamesbfudgeg Just my opinions here (moderating is a pain in the ass) But look at how this thread starts out-it's hard not to call this harassment. But the bad part is that, because the thread is alive now and was allowed to flourish, doing anything about it And yet all video game outlets, from GiantBomb to Kotaku to Destructoid to the Escapist to Reddit all the way through to 4chan's /v do their continual best efforts to simply not bring this up, both in official outlets and, in the cases of GB and v, by deleting threads about it, or in the case of Reddit downvoting it and makina the links not work. The GameJournoPros emails appear to confirm widely-held suspicions that video game journalists operate with one voice and collude on major issues to distort coverage of ethics are This revelation echoes the 2010 JournoList scandal, in which liberal reporters were caught colluding and smearing their ideological opponents in a private mailing list set up by Ezra Klein, now the editor-in-chief of Vox.com. The exposure of JournoList cost Washington Post reporter David Weigel his job, after Weigel was seen mocking conservative figures on whom he also reported in the pages of the Post. Readers with knowledge of the GameJournoPros list and in particular its membership are strongly encouraged to contact us with what they know f SHARE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/831/972/f84.png "Milo's 3rd expose")
