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All these years later, policy is still catching up to Gamergate
Dec 3, 2020
Episode 333

All these years later, policy is still catching up to Gamergate

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We'll talk about it, plus vaccines, the future of movie theaters and #SpotifyWrapped.

Molly just found herself telling her son about Gamergate — the 2014 explosion in targeted online harassment that showed how online speech can turn into offline harm. It influenced political discourse in ways that politicos, platforms and daily podcast hosts are still reckoning with. Why are we talking about this today? Well, Facebook is rethinking its moderation policies … again. We’ll talk about it, plus vaccines, the future of movie theaters and #SpotifyWrapped.

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