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    Gamergate Reddit Forum Founder Tries to Shut Down Monster of His Own CreationReddit’s Kotaku in Action was temporarily taken offline on Thursday night.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Companies Should Ignore Angry Online Mobs MoreNew 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.
    By Jesse Singal
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    The Woman Targeted by Gamergate on Surviving a World-Altering Trolling AttackZoë Quinn spent much of her life playing and designing games. Then she found herself inside one – a vicious, multiplayer real-time harassment bonanza.
    By Noreen Malone
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    All the Games and Memes You Need to Know About From Yesterday’s E3What Microsoft, EA, and Bethesda announced.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Whole World Is Now a Message BoardAnd its moderators are the meme vanguard of the alt-right.
    By Max Read
  6. Gamers Target Woman on Social Media Over New Video GameThey were mad about the poorly animated facial expressions in the new Mass Effect: Andromeda.
    By Jenni Miller
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    Why the Video-Game Culture Wars Won’t Die, Two Years After GamergateVideo-game culture warriors have a different, more fraught relationship to their hobby than other people do.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Why Won’t Video-Game Companies Even Talk About Employee Harassment?A weird balancing act in not annoying your own fans.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Why a Video of Someone Playing ‘Doom’ (Poorly) Became a Culture-War IssueThose damn social-justice warriors need to learn how to strafe and shoot at the same time.
    By Jesse Singal
  10. ‘Pounded in the Butt’ Literary Genius Trolls Right-Wing Sci-fi NerdsThe author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion strikes back.
    By Brian Feldman
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    How Social Autopsy Fell for GamerGate Trutherism“Their network runs deep. So who knows? I don’t know how deep this goes.”
    By Jesse Singal
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    Brave Free-Speech Crusaders Create Super Helpful Enemies ListSuch lists have done great good in the past.
    By Jesse Singal
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    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.
    By Jesse Singal
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    No, the British Government Isn’t Treating GamerGate Like a Terror GroupJournalism, Breitbart Tech–style.
    By Jesse Singal
  15. 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
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    SXSW Responds to Backlash With Daylong Harassment Summit“Earlier this week we made a mistake.”
    By Dayna Evans
  17. BuzzFeed to Withdraw From SXSW After the Cancellation of Gamer-Harassment PanelsSXSW canceled the discussions on harassment … because of harassment.
    By Elaine Godfrey
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    Let Ted Cruz Play Video GamesHe really wants to.
    By Jessica Roy
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    #Gamergate Is Reportedly Being Investigated by the FBIActually, it’s about ethics in death threats.
    By Jessica Roy
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    Shaking Off the Haters Won’t Solve Online HarassmentIt’s my strategy, but it only works because I’m lucky.
    By Ann Friedman
  21. memes
    ‘Alex From Target’ and the Mess of Uncontrollable FameWhat Alex has in common with Zoe Quinn.
    By Maureen O'Connor
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    Explaining the Roots of Gamer RageWho gets to call himself a “gamer”?
    By Jesse Singal
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    New Data Can Explain the Gamergate Nightmare on TwitterLots of accounts have been set up just to discuss this issue, and it hasn’t led to an enlightened conversation.
    By Jesse Singal
  24. Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This WeekendHow 8Chan celebrated its first birthday.
    By Adrian Chen
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    It’s Not Censorship to Ignore YouGamergate exemplifies anti-feminist free-speech paranoia.
    By Kat Stoeffel
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    Gamergate Should Stop Lying to Journalists — and ItselfThis is about the influence of feminism and progressivism in gaming, and the sooner Gamergate can admit that, the sooner we can have a semi-functional debate.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Gamergate’s Silver LiningThere is one — if you dig deeply enough.
    By Jesse Singal
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    You Don’t Need to Care About Video Games to Care About GamergateThree women in the gaming industry say they have received serious and violent threats over the last two months.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
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    Feminist Video-Game Critic Received Death ThreatsIt’s not the first time.
    By Allison P. Davis