[Ideas] Write a piece in Rise Miami News debunking the lies in the GamerGhazi article /r/GamerGhazi decided to publish an opinion piece claiming that GamerGate is a sexist movement with the goal of removing women from gaming. I would write an article debunking this, but I already submitted another (unrelated) piece, so someone else will have to pick up the reins on this one. All of the evidence needed to debunk Ghazi's claims is readily available in this post. The full #BurgersAndFries logs are public. /u/Thidranian, the owner of Burgers & Fries, can provide you with any necessary information. Ghazi used a few out of context screenshots in their piece, but the full logs clearly show that the majority of users in the IRC channel didn't support harassing Zoe Quinn or Phil Fish and the few people that did were generally told off by others in the room. The only evidence of actual harassment provided was committed by RogueStar who advocated hacking Phil Fish and Zoe Quinn's computers. The screenshot doesn't show that RogueStar was permanently banned from the channel and all related communities for doing so. Encouraging or participating in doxxing or illegal activities (threats, harassment, hacking, etc.) have always been bannable offenses on #BurgersAndFries. /u/Thidranian can confirm this. Ghazi also ignored the fact that the reason Quinn was hated to begin with had nothing to do with her gender, but with her actions. Primarily she had lied about being attacked by the chans before and later for her feud with The Fine Young Capitalists. Others were there to oppose the Social Justice Warrior clique that was trying to 'destroy' (in their eyes) gaming. There were also people there to expose corruption in journalism and in the IGDA, and others were just there to hangout and didn't really care. The next part of Ghazi's article focuses on Brianna Wu and cites a web page alleging that GamerGate threatened to murder Brianna Wu, yet it doesn't provide any evidence of any harassment or threats, let alone evidence linking any such threats or harassment to GamerGate or KotakuInAction. The third part talks about Ashley Lynch and how she was allegedly "swatted by GamerGate," yet the article she links to doesn't even mention GamerGate, let alone provide any evidence or suggestion that anyone from GamerGate was responsible. The fourth part makes false allegations about 8chan hosting child pornography, which like all of the above, is factually incorrect. Yet right on 8chan's main page it is clear that any illegal content (including child pornography) will be removed and Hotwheels regularly bans child pornography. The fifth part briefly namedrops a couple of other people, namely Anita Sarkeesian, but doesn't provide any evidence. The claims that GamerGate is harassing Sarkeesian were debunked by Sargon long ago. The sixth part focuses on Randi Harper, portraying her as a "GamerGate victim" without any evidence and even shills out her website. Ghazi doesn't mention that Harper is one of the worst harassers on the internet. That's effectively the entire Ghazi piece debunked in a nutshell. You might also want to take at /u/GamerGateFan's Medium article. Other useful resources to include are the Women Action Media study, the GamerGate census results, this study on alleged harassment from both sides and this statistical analysis of GamerGate's alleged harassment. Good luck and make me proud, KiA