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 ...

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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 ...

It's one thing to have read about (and reported on) the various threats of violence perpetrated by GamerGate, but seeing the FBI's collection of documents regarding the harassment campaign is entirely ...

Internet trolls turned Brianna Wu's life upside down. But she's running for Congress and thinking all isn't quite lost. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and ...

Even if you don’t know the difference between a Pikachu and a Pac-Man, chances are you’ve heard of GamerGate. While GamerGate has been raging for over a month, it officially hit the mainstream last ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Students from an all-female arts college in Philadelphia attended a conference for video game developers last year and, without even trying, they stood out. "We were basically the ...

The targets of today's large and comprehensive global campaigns to destroy their professional standing and personal lives become the nexus of internet Hurricane Irmas that continue to drench and ...

(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 ...