The events that led to Gamergate started five years ago today, and The New York Times has just published a series of four pieces related to it

Deimos
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:14:10 +0000

I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through.

Unfortunately, they're in a weird and ugly format, with an incredibly distracting background that constantly sends little "mouse cursors" towards the actual location of your mouse. I highly recommend using Reader Mode or something similar to get rid of the styles. You might also have to click a "READ MORE" link in the right place to even get the text of the article to show up properly.

Here are links to the 4 pieces (I'm not even sure if they'll work properly because of this disaster of a layout):

Brianna Wu - I Wish I Could Tell You It’s Gotten Better. It Hasn’t.

Charlie Warzel - How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War

Joan Donovan - First They Came for the Black Feminists

Sarah Jeong - When the Internet Chases You From Your Home

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