Disrupting a false media narrative — what next?

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This past weekend I traveled to beautiful Miami to discuss ethics in video game journalism — a theme popularized by the Twitter hashtag and controversy known as “GamerGate.”

For those who just read that sentence and thought, “What the heck,” GamerGate began when a handful of video game players discovered conflicts of interest between game developers and the media who review their products. A gaming journalist repeatedly promoted a game developer he had been dating without disclosing the relationship.

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