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CNN wants you to believe that a 2014 online movement over video game journalism is responsible for virtually every controversy of the last decade. In its latest attempt to revise history, CNN frames Gamergate not as a call for transparency in media, but as the spark that supposedly ignited a digital wildfire engulfing everything from social platforms to political movements.

A section from CNN's article on Gamergate where it ties the movement into modern U.S. political controversies - CNN

Let's be clear: this CNN article isn't about informing the public. It's about reshaping a narrative to paint a specific group as the origin of every cultural issue today. And it does so by burying key facts, erasing dissenting voices, and drawing outlandish connections.

CNN Blames Gamergate for the State of the Modern Online World in Wild Historical Rewrite Propoganda Hit Piece Against Gamers

CNN recently ran a hit piece on gamers in which the outlet ties Gamergate to modern online discourse and major U.S. political events.

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How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become | CNN

Gamergate was one of the earliest indications that what happened online could have major implications offline — and that a few people who understood the mechanics of the internet could manipulate it to advance a nefarious agenda.

www.cnn.com

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Stopped reading after CNN

 

[winjer]

 

[HRK69]

 

[Zacfoldor]

Welcome to the party, pal!

I'd post a meme but CNN has a chilling effect on me. Sorry to the man who laughed at the meme I had to edit out. Blame them.

 

[thefool]

 

[dDoc]

Big corpos continue digging.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Gamers: We want you to be pro-consumer, transparent and stop being in bed with "journalists".

Industry: You fucking facist, bigoted, monster!! *goes on a decade long smear campaign against it's customers*

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

CNN wants you to believe that a 2014 online movement over video game journalism is responsible for virtually every controversy of the last decade. In its latest attempt to revise history, CNN frames Gamergate not as a call for transparency in media, but as the spark that supposedly ignited a digital wildfire engulfing everything from social platforms to political movements.

A section from CNN's article on Gamergate where it ties the movement into modern U.S. political controversies - CNN

Let's be clear: this CNN article isn't about informing the public. It's about reshaping a narrative to paint a specific group as the origin of every cultural issue today. And it does so by burying key facts, erasing dissenting voices, and drawing outlandish connections.

CNN Blames Gamergate for the State of the Modern Online World in Wild Historical Rewrite Propoganda Hit Piece Against Gamers

CNN recently ran a hit piece on gamers in which the outlet ties Gamergate to modern online discourse and major U.S. political events.

thatparkplace.com

How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become | CNN

Gamergate was one of the earliest indications that what happened online could have major implications offline — and that a few people who understood the mechanics of the internet could manipulate it to advance a nefarious agenda.

www.cnn.com

Omg they're still at it. 10 years later and they're still coping about Gamergate.

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

CNN is propaganda