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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Gamergate - What They Never Told You

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored

We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activist Laurie Penny

The Guardian - UK

Former Ghost of Yotei artist says she wasn't fired because of a Charlie Kirk joke, but 'because of a harassment campaign' that nobody at Sony or Sucker Punch bothered investigating

Gamergate is alive and well in 2025.

PC Gamer

Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE

A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’

The Guardian - UK

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Man found guilty of attacking Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer testified that his radicalisation began with Gamergate

David DePape said an interest in videogames led to him to conspiracy theories.

PC Gamer

How the far right borrowed its online moves from gamers

There's a direct line from 2014's Gamergate controversy to today's toxic online partisanship, a leading researcher argues.

Axios

Time to stop ignoring The Fandom Menace

Attacks from the toxic side of Marvel and "Star Wars" fandom are a feature, not a bug, and they serve a darker side

Salon

A time bomb ‘supercharged’ by the pandemic: How white nationalists are using gaming to recruit for terror

Experts are warning that far-right agitators are using online gaming platforms to spread hate and recruit a new generation of converts. Supercharged by the rise of gaming and social isolation during the pandemic, extremism academics say more needs to be done to police these platforms for grooming hate. Io Dodds…

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