Over the weekend, Giant Spacekat’s Brianna Wu took to Twitter to suggest that “Gamergate had threatened PAX East with a Sarin gas attack”, using a six-month-old tweet taken completely out of context.
Wu’s tweet, now deleted, is presented below:
Wu presented tweets by user @elotente — with the user’s username and image obscured — to suggest that the sarin gas threats were made in the name of GamerGate. In fact, they appear to be exactly the opposite.
Here are more of the user’s tweets, now protected, but captured by LibertarianBlue:
Wu later deleted her original tweet when others pointed out the lack of context.
Later, the developer went back to Twitter to indirectly address the original tweet’s deletion.
Wu has yet to concede that her original tweet was a misrepresentation.
Last week, Wu released a statement saying she’d pulled her company’s booth from PAX East over fears that those that supported GamerGate would act out against her.
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