I’m a filmmaker and my most recent film is a two-part documentary about GamerGate. Your colleague Leighton Woodhouse over at Public has seen the film and praised it for showing him what he “totally missed/got wrong” about the GamerGate controversy:
I’m a filmmaker and my most recent film is a two-part documentary about GamerGate. Your colleague Leighton Woodhouse over at Public has seen the film and praised it for showing him what he “totally missed/got wrong” about the GamerGate controversy:
It focuses on the Society of Professional Journalists mediated panel discussion on the controversy in August of 2015. After several hours of discussion representatives from the SPJ and the Poynter Institute agreed; GamerGate’s concerns about unethical journalism were legitimate, and the media misrepresented the movement. The discussion was interrupted by ten bomb threats in a single day. Local authorities evacuated the venue along with the surrounding city block. It received virtually no national media coverage.
I almost didn’t include her in the film at all because she factors so little it is ridiculous. She inserted herself into GamerGate because she is a non-entity in the video game industry. Her only credit is a single iOS shovelware title which looks like it was programmed by a first-year game arts student throwing together random Unity assets. The fact that she gets so much coverage in the press as a “female video game developer” is an insult to talented women like Jade Raymond, Amy Hennig, Roberta Williams, etc.
The only thing that Brianna Wu is famous for is making claims of being “harassed” by GamerGate, the evidence of which is paltry. The FBI investigated GamerGate and found ZERO actionable threats. And in their report they speak of one person who sent threats to themselves. It has been speculated that this was Brianna Wu, because she was caught in the act several times before. Meanwhile I know of many pro-GamerGate women and minorities who were subject to vicious threats and insults on social media. They didn't receive any attention from the media because, as feminist pro-GamerGate spokesperson Christian Hoff Sommers states in my film, "the narrative matters more than the truth."
Hello Bari Weiss,
I’m a filmmaker and my most recent film is a two-part documentary about GamerGate. Your colleague Leighton Woodhouse over at Public has seen the film and praised it for showing him what he “totally missed/got wrong” about the GamerGate controversy:
https://x.com/lwoodhouse/status/1718370930404254085?s=46&t=4yGRpI-RBFz_CQRkumh-rw
It focuses on the Society of Professional Journalists mediated panel discussion on the controversy in August of 2015. After several hours of discussion representatives from the SPJ and the Poynter Institute agreed; GamerGate’s concerns about unethical journalism were legitimate, and the media misrepresented the movement. The discussion was interrupted by ten bomb threats in a single day. Local authorities evacuated the venue along with the surrounding city block. It received virtually no national media coverage.
I almost didn’t include her in the film at all because she factors so little it is ridiculous. She inserted herself into GamerGate because she is a non-entity in the video game industry. Her only credit is a single iOS shovelware title which looks like it was programmed by a first-year game arts student throwing together random Unity assets. The fact that she gets so much coverage in the press as a “female video game developer” is an insult to talented women like Jade Raymond, Amy Hennig, Roberta Williams, etc.
The only thing that Brianna Wu is famous for is making claims of being “harassed” by GamerGate, the evidence of which is paltry. The FBI investigated GamerGate and found ZERO actionable threats. And in their report they speak of one person who sent threats to themselves. It has been speculated that this was Brianna Wu, because she was caught in the act several times before. Meanwhile I know of many pro-GamerGate women and minorities who were subject to vicious threats and insults on social media. They didn't receive any attention from the media because, as feminist pro-GamerGate spokesperson Christian Hoff Sommers states in my film, "the narrative matters more than the truth."