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Michael Hafford (a former contributor to Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vice), aGG and Male Feminist faces multiple rape allegations.

No news if he has been brought to justice if true.

https://archive.is/BKm5E

Matt Hickey - Guilty of anti consumer practices for fake porn studio scam he used to sleep with women and take pictures of them.

https://archive.is/NonG3

There are several other stories about him on OneAngryGamer but I think this last one summarizes other points.

Devin Faraci has had accusations on several occasions.

Very vocal antiGG person, he has been accused twice.

https://archive.is/9y0G3

https://archive.is/RTHUE

After he was fired from his first job at Birth.Movies.Death (run by Alamo Drafthouse and Tim League) for allegations he then allegedly did it again before being hired to work at Alamo Drafthouse. Outcry prompted him to be fired again.

More info via Mombot:

Live: https://www.twitter.com/i/moments/851713200537993216

Archive: https://archive.is/yu1OQ

Need to find original sources on the stories.

I want to give you a head's-up; on one of his Thinkery streams (embed related @ 9min 40sec) Sargon of Akkad mentioned that he was going to do a full video on "Male Feminist Allies" who end up being sexpests.

>>331252

If Sam Kriss is found innocent and the above post needs to be deleted, please also delete this post.

https://archive.is/EhqJw

Sam was also fired from the UK Labor party (not sure how we worked for them).

He also deemed himself a “Marxist Leftist”- but the article lacks a source on that claim (possibly from the HuffPo UK article).

>>331279

If Tyler Malka is found innocent and the above post needs to be deleted, please also delete this post.

Had to split this up into two posts due to poor internet connection.

Original incidents (according to one OneAngryGamer):

https://archive.is/tycvw

https://archive.is/vNjSF

IMO the first (the twitter convo) could be a (failed) attempt at an insulting comeback rather than sexual harassment. However, in a court of law, it may be deemed that.

The second is straight up hypocritical behavior based on what the websites TOS is, and Tyler's later politics. There is also the irony of him being aGG and saying "Sexual objectification is great. Harassment is not." when NeoGAF has acted like the first was no different than the latter, and allegedly doing the latter behind everyone's backs. It's almost as if he 180'd his politics to attract people to act as a shield.

As for the current events, OneAngryGamer's reporting claims this is the newest incident that everyone is resigning over (if I'm understanding his article correctly):

https://archive.is/Y0VI7

https://archive.fo/tKRxo#selection-485.0-527.81

(At no point does the forum post however claim it IS Tyler, only saying someone "famous in the gaming industry" so I'm not sure how Tyler is implicated in it)

The article also says when a mod was arrested for child porn he allegedly donated money to him (no link or citation of that claim in the article) "but then later attempted to claim that they didn’t know much about him."

The article goes on to claim moderators buried topics relating to this as well (if true, it gives more credibility to doing the same for their boss).

There is also a Twitter chain of the events at NeoGAF:

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/921865573876854789

https://archive.is/x8hXb

Archive does not show all of it however.

>>331286

A "private" place to discuss GG is pretty much off the books.

You'd need to post the link to it on /v/ or here, so the people who hate us and monitor would know. Not to mention any truely private forum/message board (i.e. log-in to see shit) could be DDOS'd or subject to false claims of organizing crime or sharing illegal content.

All I'm doing is reposting what others have posted/discussed in places with far more eyes on it than here (Reddit, Twitter, etc).

>>331279

If Tyler Malka is found innocent and the above post needs to be deleted, please also delete this post.

A better summery of >>331282

https://archive.is/kdU2A

And I meant Jason of Kotaku, not Polygon.

>>331279

If Tyler Malka is found innocent and the above post needs to be deleted, please also delete this post.

Archive version of third pic:

http://archive.fo/zeEX1

Does anyone have a copy of the Shitty Media Men list? There are apparently lots of anti gamergaters on the list like Sam Biddle and Joe Bernstein. It's said to have finally leaked to Twitter and Reddit today but I can't find anything.

>>331301

I'll keep an eye out. Try asking /8diamonds/ (if they're still around) or /pol/.

>>331306

If Anthony White is found innocent and the above post needs to be deleted, please also delete this post.

https://archive.is/W7wfY

Another summery of events, by OneAngryGamer

>>331308

>>331301

Cernovich claims Mother Jones might be on it- due to them claiming Cernovich has edited the list, despite him not publishing the list or (according to him) never edited it.

He also claims someone called David Corn was on the list, and Mother Jones defended him.

https://archive.is/6V55M

https://archive.is/G8Xs9

The original list is a Google Doc, and with what's been happening with them recently, expect it to vanish into smoke. Except for those who downloaded it.

IMO- If the list is real, great.

If the list is entirely fake, (((They))) could be afraid as it'll inspire investigation into real crimes.

If it's "half-fake" (some fake and some are real and/or those that were guess-work or thought to be fake are actually real) would still have the same effect as either of the above.

This one is rough.

Only reason I'm saying these are just allegations is because the guy hasn't had his day in court yet.

Article is via Jezebel, a site that usually has a feminist stance.

https://archive.is/y6Lrv

https://archive.is/km1ua

> On October 6, Helen Donahue, who previously worked as a social media editor for Vice and also wrote for the website, posted photos of bruises on her upper body, neck, and face to Twitter. “sux men in media hate women yet write abt feminism n masquerade as allies but its sadder this happens,” she wrote. “2015 i screamed @ my own reflection.”

https://archive.is/V9p83

> Shortly after, another writer named Deirdre Coyle quoted Donahue’s tweet, writing “these bruises came from the same guy who physically forced me to do cocaine during sex.” And yet another woman known on Twitter by her first name, Dilara, quoted Coyle’s tweet, writing: “This is the same guy who choked me at the foot of his stairs until I passed out and then repeatedly punched me in the face.”

https://archive.is/xZXCn

https://archive.is/LRhPK

> All three women confirmed to each other privately that the man they were referring to was writer Michael Hafford, a former freelance columnist for Broadly and freelance writer for outlets like Refinery29, Rolling Stone, T Magazine and more. The rapper ka5sh, a friend of Donahue’s, also tweeted that Hafford was the man Donahue’s tweet was referring to.

https://archive.is/0f9Mv

> Hafford’s column at Broadly, Vice’s site aimed at women, was “Male Feminist Here,” a satire of male feminism and allyship that ran for three months in 2015. (Disclosure: I also wrote a piece for Broadly in 2015.) “The Male Feminist knows how much the love of a good woman means. Hell, the Male Feminist would settle for grudging acceptance,” Hafford wrote in the first edition of the column. “Not that he’s desperate. He just loves being around women, you know?”

[IMO, Hafford was acting exactly as a male feminist does. Whether Jezebel is trying to memory hole him as a parody, or mean something else I do not know. They then claim he worked with Milo sending him stories.]

> Donahue was first emboldened to come forward on social media after a BuzzFeed investigation revealed that former Broadly editor Mitchell Sunderland had been emailing stories to Milo Yiannopolous to mock via Breitbart. The day after BuzzFeed’s story came out, Vice’s HR was first made aware of allegations around Hafford’s behavior through these Twitter posts, and “he was banned from contributing to any of the company’s properties,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to Jezebel. “Vice does not tolerate assault of any kind, or behavior that is disrespectful or offensive to any group or demonstrates bias or bigotry, and we took action as soon as we learned what happened. We continue to review the matter.”

https://archive.is/mmrd1

> Former Broadly Editor-in-Chief (and, previously, longtime Jezebel staffer) Tracie Egan Morrissey told Jezebel that she had never met Hafford or had any communications with him during the three months he contributed to the site, but after editors informed her that “he had become aggressive and rude and difficult to work with,” the column was killed in December 2015. His behavior was confirmed by another current editor who prefers to remain anonymous.

> In addition to Donahue, Coyle, and Dilara, Jezebel also spoke to a fourth woman, Abby Carney, who alleges Hafford raped her. Though all women say they engaged in relationships with Hafford at some point, their consent was often eroded during these encounters: kissing somehow became penetrative sex even after protests, sex suddenly included unwanted physical violence.

[…]

> “We are horrified by the allegations against Michael Hafford. Broadly does not tolerate violence against women of any kind, and we’ve worked hard to report on injustices against women and marginalized communities,” wrote Ciel Hunter, Global Head of Content for Vice, in an email to Jezebel. “The Broadly team is comprised of women who are committed to amplifying the voices of survivors, and we will continue to do the work, both internally and in the field, to challenge the systems and people oppressing women today.”

The article continues with the women describing the attacks. Not posting only for the sake of brevity on the board.

The article continues here: https://archive.is/y6Lrv#selection-1529.0-1529.3

>>331333

If you wish to share out the story, you have the tweets. This one is especially hard hitting IMO:

twitter.com/NeilJEdmondson/status/926828004180860928

https://archive.is/wH1f3

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST https://www.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/7bkm0p/dutchsocjus_van_jole_editor_in_chief_of_joopnl/

Van Jole, Editor in Chief of JoopNL (part of BNNVARA), a site where they claim GamerGate hates women and that rape culture is real, has been accused of molesting a women via #metoo

https://archive.is/5nP77

https://archive.is/he5fK

https://archive.is/SEpQ5

https://archive.is/t3Ksq

> It's alleged he fed a women of 23 drunk and then forced himself on her while she said "no". He has been trying to make excuses about it. BNNVARA is part of the NPO (government funded broadcasts), where the NOS and "gamergate is 50 men hating women" AVROTROS are also part of.

I am not able to download the video provided in the website links.

To those reading, I implore you to work out a way to download that video, so evidence is not lost.

(While Reddit claims someone has legitimized the recording as real- https://archive.is/5vWD4 -, we must continue to say it is an accusation, as people can lie and shit can be doctored, until he is proven guilty)

Vice Suspends Documentary Producer Jason Mojica For [Allegations Of] Sexual Misconduct

https://archive.is/3yniE

> No further comments or statements were produced by Vice regarding Mojica’s suspension, but it comes shortly after both Vice and their subsidiary Waypoint acknowledged the sexual misconduct claims that were said to be rife within the media company’s corporate culture.

> So what exactly did Mojica do? According to Barghouty he asked how flexible she was after asking if she signed the non-traditional non-disclosure agreement, something that Waypoint reproached Vice for using as a means of leverage against employees.

> One of the employees told the Daily Beast under anonymity – since she had signed the NDA and did not want to risk legal repercussions – that some management used the NDAs as pressure against the young female staff…

< “When older men, senior reporters, or managers would hook up with young female reporter after young female reporter, [my manager] would kind of a shrug and say, ‘Well, non-traditional workplace environment.’”

> The Daily Beast says that employees told them that the managing staff would use the NDA in a joking manner before doing something uncouth.

The "non-standard" NDA (according to OneAngryGamer) says:

> “Although it is possible that some of the text, images and information I will be exposed to the course of my employment with Vice may be considered by some to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing, I do not find such text, images or information or the workplace environment at Vice to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing.”

https://archive.is/3On9N

A linked document via another article says:

> Due to the nature of business and operations, including but not limited to its print and online publications, sexually provocative and other explicit images, videos and audio recordings are regularly present VICE's offices.

> Individuals employed by VICE must be conscious of VICE's non-traditional environment and comfortable with exposure to and participation in situations that may present themselves during the course of their employment. While working at VICE, I acknowledge that I may be exposed to highly provocative material, some of it containing extremely explicit sexual and controversial content. If I travel offsite for projects and perform work on location I will be confronted with unique and unusual situations, which may be considered offensive, indecent or unacceptable by others.

> I have read the information above, and I hereby acknowledge that I am familiar with VICE's print and online publications and office environment. Although it is possible that some of the text, images and information I will be exposed to in the course of my employment with VICE may be considered by some to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing, I do not find such text, images or information or the workplace environment at VICE to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing.

> I have voluntarily accepted my employment with VICE. I agree to hold VICE harmless from any and all claims I may have based upon VICE's workplace environment or my exposure to specific text, images or information in the course of my employment with VICE.

> If at any time in the future I believe that the workplace environment at VICE has become offensive, I will inform Human Resources immediately.

https://archive.is/jBV2H

The discrepancy between the two quotes may be due to the document's text format via the website seems to be some bot that reads the text, and it is not 100% accurate. That and/or Billy had a different copy of the VICE contract- real or otherwise.

In either case, the contract would only be appropriate if you were dealing with material that would be offensive (dead bodies, murder, sexual abuse, etc). It seems very unlikely an NDA like this would be needed to cover their hide for sex tapes of celebs.

Associated Articles:

https://archive.is/UhkHH

https://archive.is/79bzQ

> Tariq Lacy, former PR manager and marketing staff at Area 35, is now claiming game director Hiroaki Yura embezzled that money and used it towards Area 35’s new game, Tiny Metal. Yura responded by accusing Lacy of sexual harassment during his time at the Tokyo-based company.

https://archive.is/mBTMi

There's not much info on either side. Tiny Metal was delayed a month after Tariq's claim.

Brandon claims Tariq used to work at Gumi, and Nintendo HQ in WA state before that.

If Tariq's claim is false, he could be doing this to get attention for his next project, job, or attention in general (going off other SJW- if he's a male feminist sex-pest- it is in character).

It is possible both parties can be lying, both telling the truth, or one is telling the truth and the other is lying.

>>331254

Matt Hickey, Former Gizmodo Journalist Pleads Guilty To Reduced Rape Charges

> https://archive.is/LCQmF

It should be noted there are circumstances someone will admit to guilt when they did not do it. However from a legal POV, we no longer need to say "allegedly" when discussing Matt Hickey.

Not sure if this counts.

Former NeoGaf Mod Amir0x Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography

https://archive.is/zKSpv

> Former NeoGaf moderator and anti-#GamerGate critic, Christopher John Goldberg, has pled guilty to a single count of child pornography. Readers of One Angry Gamer tipped us off to the updated docket and court summaries, which reveal the current status of Goldberg’s impending sentencing, as well as the fact that he has put in a guilty plea to one of the many charges of accessing child pornography.

>>331371

>He wouldn't take "no" for an answer!

>I didn't say "no", I just made up excuses!

Which is it?