A decade after Gamergate launched a new, toxic era of online communication, the tactics developed and honed in 2014 are now in full view in attacks against the vice president.
Back in August 2014, the misogynistic online campaign that became known as Gamergate was something that bubbled up in the anonymous, dark corners of the internet that only a select few even knew existed. Ten years later, the tactics used against Gamergate targets like Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian—boosting lies, coordinated harassment, hateful memes—are entrenched in the playbook of the right.
” The adoption of Gamergate-style tactics and ideology arguably reached its zenith when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, inspired not only by Trump’s words on that day, but by weeks and months of online rhetoric posted by right-wing trolls and influencers. In the wake of the Capitol insurrection, it seemed like something would finally be done to tackle the flood of hatred that was permeating the internet.
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