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XXfactor BITWISE DECODING THE TECH WORLD. FEB. 5 2015 12:04 PM WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK MARCH 6 2015 1:15 PMM The Wikipedia Ouroboros On Wikipedia, Gamergate he online encyclopedia chews up and spits out ad facts, and its own policies are letting it eoo Refuses to Die 927 336 218 By Amanda Marcotte By David Auerbach Both articles from Slate 20 15 221 The Internet has finally eaten itself Wikipedia still has some serious problems handling controversial topics. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via NASA, Creative Commons. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images ast week, the Internet finally ate itself a Wikipedia disciplinary case centered around Gamergate had concluded with the scandalous banning of feminist editors, even though the case hadn't A Wikipedia article misreported that As a media phenomenon, Gamergate may have died out a few months ago, but that doesn't mean the die-hard Gamergaters have gone away. Lauren Williams at ThinkProgress has written managed to get five Wikipedia editors banned or restricted from editing Wikipedia- for tweaking the Wikipedia pages of feminist critics and developers to erase slander hat anti-feminists were trying to pass off as factual information n in-depth investigation of how Gamergaters have inished and nobody had been bann correct. Scandal usually travels faster than truth, but this time it fully lapped the facts. How did this temporal paradox come to pass? Yet by the rules of Wikipedia, the page was Hey Amanda Marcotte, next time you try doing journalism maybe try and fact-check it, perhaps with the article on the left, posted a month before on the very same site you wrote yours on Slate), and talking about the very same misinformation that was spread about "five feminist editors" getting banned from Wikipedia when no such thing ocurred. Maybe then we could trust the rest of the stuff you preach about in the rest of your article

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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
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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Its not the first time amanda marcotte says shit, remember that case in a university that a woman accused some football players of raping her in a party in whitch the most of the football team was. After the woman accused the players, marcotte wrote an article saying that they should arrest the players immediately without a trial, And decrying anyone that wanted the players to have a fair trial as "rape enablers". but in the end the 5 different dna samples found on the womans body didnt match ANY of the 42 players who where at the party, and the woman confessed she made a false rape claim.

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