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Do we know what the author of that article's biases are? (Everyone comes with their biases, and I know pretty clearly what Brianna Wu's are because she's reasonably famous, but I haven't heard of Brad Glasgow, I think.)

In particular, the casual dismissal of saying that someone "bills herself as a game designer and activist" and the off-hand reference to "former GDC Pioneer Award winner Markus 'Notch' Pearson" without mentioning Notch's strong ideological biases re social issues and the game industry, make me feel like there's something undisclosed here.

If we're going to be wary of journalists misrepresenting sources to fit an agenda, I feel like we should apply that principle consistently.

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A quick search of his other work makes it look like "progressives" and "anti-gamergate" rhetoric are his common targets. I would in no way look at this as an unbiased source.

I applaud your skepticism of the journalist's biases, but you should usually follow that up with an analysis how they could have possibly twisted the sources to fit their agenda. Since Glasgow's article is a collection of interviews, do you claim that:

- he has skipped interviewing dissenting voices - do you have evidence of this(interviewed by other media) or do you think they have been neglected by everyone?

- he has twisted the interviews to fit the agenda - do you have evidence of the interviewees objecting to their representation, or do you think they are scared/don't care to speak up?

I don't find any of these scenarios plausible or likely, but perhaps you have more evidence than me to demonstrate that Glasgow was spinning a narrative?

I've never heard of Notch having strong biases regarding social issues and the game industry. I quickly googled but all I could find were references to some tweets he deleted about some "heterosexual pride" or something that he later apologized for.

Do you have a link or can you sumarize what those biases are?

he has said a bunch of inflammatory things on twitter. Here is one thread https://imgur.com/gallery/8CBmG Here's another where he talks about pizzagate and how people around the Clintons keep dying https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/minecraft-creator-pizzagate/

I think some things he has claimed were jokes but I don't know.

This is hilarious not inflammatory.

Okay, so, maybe he's a nut or a troll, but nothing really about gaming?

Brad Glasgow is the unofficial pro-gamergate journalist. (I'm sure he would say he is neutral and everyone else is anti-gamergate).

Going to be honest, before I knew that, his article didn't seem too problematic. The title seemed rather silly (it implies #metoo is a bad thing) but I didn't read a lot of editorializing in the content.

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