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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 Vanderhoth on Monday October 13 2014, @08:50PM
I would like to assume they're real and err on the side of caution.
That said, I was on twitter Friday night when the S**t hit the fan.
There's some question about Wu's twtter time line, she tweeted she received threats 1 minute before she actually received the threats. She received the threats, which didn't tag #GamerGate, SHE tagged #GamerGate and accused it of sending the threats. It could have easily been MRA extremest or any number of other people.
On top of that her tweet tagging #GamerGate was re-tweeted over 1,200 times in the first five minutes, there's a lot of speculation she was using bots to spread the message as quickly as possible. At which point a "friend" of Wu's started tweeting around, "My friend was just threatened here's a link to her game".
People in GamerGate had started reporting it and had the account down in 15 minutes. Not 5 minutes later the first article blaming #GamerGate came out by Ian, something other other. Give how quickly it went from "OMG, I'm being threatened" to "Here's a link to my friends game" to "ZOMG!! #GamerGate is chasing women out of their homes!", to me this seems very much like it was intended to happen.
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 14 2014, @02:24PM
"So trap?"
"Trap."
"At least a little effort to hide it would be nice--"
*knocks tray off console*
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"