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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Michael Koretzky saw an opportunity—that’s what he would call it, anyway. It was early May, and the Society of Professional ...

There has been more text written about the controversy known as "GamerGate" than lines of dialogue in the newly released fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition. In fact, whether GamerGate ...

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 ...

I really want to be done with being angry and disappointed about SXSW; this is far more attention than I ever wanted to pay to a conference that, frankly, I would be leery of spending the time and ...

Video gamers are having a bizarre debate over whether sending death threats to women is a serious issue or not, as Business Insider discovered looking into the GamerGate movement. To anyone who is not ...

Is GamerGate still relevant? Has the loose, mostly anonymous movement, which claims to be about ethics in journalism but whose critics (myself included) see as more a reaction to increasing ...

#GamerGate---the amorphous online gamer movement that's either god's gift to gaming or a hate-inspired campaign against women depending on who you ask---is turning one-year-old. It sure has been an ...

(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 ...