On Wikipedia, Gamergate Refuses To Die

On Wikipedia, Gamergate Refuses To Die
A young woman looking sadly at the monitor of her computer.
A young woman looking sadly at the monitor of her computer.

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 an in-depth investigation of how Gamergaters have 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 that anti-feminists were trying to pass off as factual information.

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