Monday, February 27, 2017

Prominent GamerGate target details disturbing harassment, all these years later

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Years on from the peak of the GamerGate controversy, women in the game industry are still finding themselves harassed by anonymous people.

In a series of troubling tweets on Monday night, game developer turned congressional candidate Brianna Wu said GamerGate is still "ongoing" for her, years after receiving death threats that forced her to flee her home. 

Wu highlighted a recent incident where she had been sent pictures of herself by a stranger, taken near her Boston home without her knowledge.

"The coffee shop I write at, the theater my husband and I go to, the shops I frequent near my home.  Message was, 'I know where you live,'" one of her tweets reads. Read more...

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