Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2014, a group of anonymous gamers launched a harassment campaign against women in the gaming industry. More than a decade later ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The company behind lyric annotator Genius came out with a new tool, News Genius, so its users could add annotations to any page on ...
Internet trolls turned Brianna Wu's life upside down. But she's running for Congress and thinking all isn't quite lost. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and ...
Last weekend, a man in San Francisco went into the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer and attacked her husband Paul Pelosi while shouting, "Where's Nancy?" According to The ...
It's one thing to have read about (and reported on) the various threats of violence perpetrated by GamerGate, but seeing the FBI's collection of documents regarding the harassment campaign is entirely ...
Following the launch of Elon Musk's Grokipedia, Mark Kern - who goes by @Grummz on X - praised the AI-generated encyclopedia of telling the truth about Gamergate that "documents nearly everything".
Even if you don’t know the difference between a Pikachu and a Pac-Man, chances are you’ve heard of GamerGate. While GamerGate has been raging for over a month, it officially hit the mainstream last ...
No look back at video games in the last decade is complete without an honest, clear-eyed reckoning with GamerGate, the massive, decentralized hate-mob temper tantrum that upended people’s lives in the ...
I haven't seen much reasonable from the GG side. And anyone who tries to tie their stuff to #gamergate is an idiot. It's frustrating because it's basically made a whole category of issues un-debatable ...
(CNN) — It’s not uncommon these days to hear the internet described as a hellscape. Hate speech proliferates in online spaces. Algorithms designed to maximize user engagement amplify divisive content ...