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Brianna Wu, head of the independent gaming studio Giant Spacekat, was the target of a series of tweets containing death threats on Friday; one published her home address (since redacted). The poster's Twitter account has been disabled.
Wu responded on Friday night with the tweet:
Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal
The police just came by. Husband and I are going somewhere safe.
Remember, #gamergate isn't about attacking women.
GamerGate supporters denounced the threats and "doxxing" against Wu and disavowed the poster. However, several suspected that the tweets were a false flag created by anti-GamerGate forces:
Sun Knight @SunKnightO
@Sen_Armstrong @Spacekatgal @chatterwhiteman It's clearly either a troll or false flag shame that people actually think its legit.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday October 13 2014, @09:30AM
I take a dim view of any arrangement of pixels whether it is a photograph or a screenshot which "proves" that something appeared on the Internet. The screenshot I saw may or may not be genuine but it looked legitimate to me and it correlated with an account which had been deleted by Twitter due to abuse. Unfortunately, I cursed myself after reading an analysis which noted several anomalies. First and foremost, 10 grammatically correct messages were sent in time that it would have taken me to send one or two. Secondly, the screenshot was taken about 20 minutes after the first message was sent. Thirdly, the screenshot was taken by a prominent Twitter user who was not logged into their account. Overall, the screenshot was consistent with someone who had just logged out of a sockpuppet account after trolling herself. I missed this possibility entirely and I now take an even dimmer view of such evidence.
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