#gamergate

The verdict of the highly publicized Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial, in which a Virginia court ruled that Depp was the more aggrieved party, sent leftist journalists into a tailspin on Twitter, with some reaching back into the distant history of millennial criticism of feminism for answers.

Researchers found in a 2017 study that edits to Wikipedia about scientific subjects influenced the content of scientific literature and what studies would be cited in papers based on their usage on the “online encyclopedia.” Last year, another study found edits about Spanish cities had a measurable impact on tourist activity and an earlier study found investor sentiment could also be influenced. In the case of scientific research, the results showed that the creation of one Wikipedia page influenced up to 250 scientific papers.

Wikipedia’s GamerGate article has long been subjected to biased editing by opponents of the anti-corruption movement in gaming. They have been aided by major media sources that spent years defaming the movement, which had paid particular attention to press corruption. Breitbart News has found that many of these outlets, including BBC News, USA Today, the Daily Telegraph, and the Los Angeles Times have sometimes relied on Wikipedia itself for their false characterizations of GamerGate without crediting the online encyclopedia.

Five years ago Wikipedia got sucked into the controversy over GamerGate, the anti-corruption movement in gaming. The narrative found on Wikipedia, like many others about GamerGate, is a lie. Wikipedia’s treatment of GamerGate foreshadows the site’s treatment of many political issues during the Donald Trump presidency.

Every tool the people use to express their opinion has come under attack by elites.

Dominant PC gaming platform Steam received mass criticism from social justice news outlets after it announced the platform would end curation and censorship, and become an open market.

Six months after coming out as a conservative, YouTube personality Candace Owens is moving beyond her RedPillBlack profile and turning to activism for Turning Point USA.

NBC News attempted to smear the #GamerGate consumer revolt movement with unaffiliated violent tweets in a segment on Monday.

A newly proposed bill claims it would take aim at Internet crimes like swatting and doxing with $24 million a year devoted to prevention.

A popular leftist narrative is that GamerGate helped usher in the age of Donald Trump. They may be right, but for the wrong reasons.

A Ubisoft employee announced on Twitter his intention to illegally download and spread pirated copies of a rival company’s videogame for political reasons.

GamerGate returns to haunt E3, after ‘The Last Night’ developer’s old tweets in support of the movement are dredged up by leftists.

The BBC has run a series of online and radio segments claiming the “great meme war has travelled to France”, implying Internet jokes could swing the French election for the Front National as the broadcaster alleges they did for Trump and Brexit in the UK and U.S.

A Wikipedia editor who was banned from editing articles after unsubstantiated charges of “off-site harassment” says admins have changed their initial reasoning for banning him, over a year after the fact.

Destructoid owner Yanier Gonzalez heralded consumer revolt movement GamerGate as “positive” in a newly surfaced interview from July.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign promoted an article written by anti-Gamergate developer Brianna Wu over the weekend that attacked Gamergate, the alt-right, and Breitbart News.

How a politically inexperienced band of hobbyists brought a media empire to its knees.

An “online abuse” specialist who works for Amazon has been revealed as an online abuser.

A male feminist deeply involved in Zoe Quinn’s Twitter-partnered “anti-harassment” organization, Crash Override Network, has been accused of harassing, stalking, and abusing female victims.

I recently talked with with actor, writer, and Project X star Jonathan Daniel Brown to talk about his recent endorsement of #GamerGate and the ensuing reaction, the mainstream media, and Project XX.

How Twitter went from “The Free Speech Wing of The Free Speech Party” to a haven of political censorship and wacky SJW values.

Even though Milo is a preening bitch with stupid hair who learned most of his journalistic skills from me but has now disappeared up his own bottom I have to admit that I still love him and that, what’s more, he has taught me a few useful things in return.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales describes his vaunted online encyclopedia as “unbiased” and “neutral. We’re not so sure about that.

Zoe Quinn has cancelled her keynote speech at Wikimedias Diversity conference following a Breitbart article about her appearance at the event

Professional victimhood can still get you a platform at Wikimedia.

In a series of tweets sent out Thursday evening, Randi Lee Harper, an “anti-abuse” activist with a notorious reputation for abusing people on social media, declared that she was setting up a Twitter blocklist for anyone who followed a “Breitbart related” account.

Was Zoe Quinn GamerGate all along? Or, at least, its so-called “harassing” element — those who were accused of sending anonymous death threats and abuse to the feminist video games designer?

In a post to the official Beamdog forums, the developers of Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear have decided to eliminate Minsc’s cringe-inducing slight toward a section of the gaming community.

A senior Riot Games staff member went on a bizarre, unprovoked Twitter rant about GamerGate, declaring anyone who identifies with the consumer-driven movement to be a “monster.”

Politically active porn star, free speech activist, and GamerGate icon Mercedes Carrera dropped out of a panel appearance at SXSW this week after refusing to delete a list of tweets criticising notorious harasser and anti-GamerGate activist Randi Lee Harper, who was also in attendance at the festival.

Anti-GamerGate Democrat Representative Katherine Clark has announced a new bill that aims to defeat “cybercrime” and increase digital “enforcement training” for police officers.

Lol, just kidding. Here are some pictures of the actual event. https://www.instagram.com/p/BC3t74OJW2w/?taken-by=omargee https://www.instagram.com/p/BC26Po3pW1d/?taken-by=omargee Serial online abuser Randi Harper, a particularly ironic supporter of the event, spent much of her time anxiously glancing at other people’s phones, looking for GamerGate-supporting spies.

CometCon, a nerd culture convention in Spain, has faced heavy backlash after banning a GamerGate debate panel from taking place.

Left-wing blogging empire Gawker Media is being sued for publishing a sex tape of professional wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan. If Gawker loses, they face the prospect of a $100 million payout to Hogan, a penalty that could cripple the once-mighty media empire.

If someone told me they were from Australia and their name was “Sandy Beaches,” I might suspect that a prank was underway. Not so for The Mary Sue, the home of “geek and pop culture feminism” on the internet, who were convinced to run two hoax articles from an Australian man posing as a feminist woman.

A year and a half ago, feminist battleaxe Leigh Alexander was one of the leading voices of a video games press dominated by progressives. Today, the situation is much changed. Alexander has announced her retirement from games journalism after Offworld, her diversity-minded games blog, failed to take off.