Radicalized Pod Episode 44: Brianna Wu

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Honored and grateful to have Brianna Wu on the podcast this week. We covered a lot of ground about GamerGate, how it metastasized into the alt-right, and how it intermingled with Russian influence to bring us to where we are today.

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Radicalized: Truth Survives, an investigative podcast on disinformation and radicalization with Heidi Cuda, Jim Stewartson, High Fidelity, and Sean Conner.

Special Guest: Brianna Wu.

Guest socials: @BriannaWu @rebellionpac

Website: https://rebellionpac.com/

Bio: Brianna Wu is an American video game developer and computer programmer. She co-founded Giant Spacekat, an independent video game development studio, with Amanda Warner in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a blogger and podcaster on matters relating to the video game industry Wu was one of the targets of Gamergate harassment.

In February 2015, she said, "by attacking me so viciously, they're helping give me the visibility to usher in the very game industry they're terrified about." Wu started a legal defense fund for women targeted by Gamergate. As of late 2014, the Wu family was also offering a cash reward for information leading to the prosecution of those who sent the death threats. By February 2015 she said she was spending a full day a week contacting law enforcement, and was only attending events in the US with a security detail. In March 2015, she said she had received 48 death threats during the previous six months. As of May 2019, she and her husband were still living under aliases.

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