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The Guardian
Website	https://www.theguardian.com/
Parent Company	Guardian Media Group
Owner	Guardian Media Group
Editor-in-Chief	Alan Rusbridger
Ethics Policy	[1]
Boycotted?	Yes

About

The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper.

Role in GamerGate

The Guardian has published numerous one-sided articles portraying GamerGate as a hate campaign and condemning actions ostensibly related to it. The comments sections of articles is often heavily moderated in order to silence dissenting views.^[1]

Articles done by The Guardian involving Gamergate

Useful resources for this section

• Gamergate's vicious right-wing swell means there can be no neutral stance (1) (2) (3)
• How to attack a woman who works in video gaming (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate: the community is eating itself but there should be room for all (1) (2) (3)
• Zoe Quinn on Gamergate: 'We need a proper discussion about online hate mobs' (1) (2)(3)
• Feminist games critic cancels talk after terror threat (1) (2) (3)
• Lazy coverage of Gamergate is only feeding this abusive campaign (1) (2) (3)
• Brianna Wu and the human cost of Gamergate: 'every woman I know in the industry is scared' (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate: the internet is the toughest game in town – if you’re playing as a woman (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate is loud, dangerous and a last grasp at cultural dominance by angry white men (1) (2) (3)
• Utah State University defends handling of threat to GamerGate critic Sarkeesian (1) (2) (3)
• Felicia Day's public details put online after she described Gamergate fears (1) (2) (3)
• The Evil Within Review (see subsection #gamergate news) (1) (2) (3)
• The gaming journalist who tells on her internet trolls – to their mothers (NOTE: Says Australia Culture) (1) (2) (3)
• Zoe Quinn: 'All Gamergate has done is ruin people's lives' (1) (2) (3)
• Rolling Stone threw a rape victim to the misogynist horde (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate: Swedish gaming companies tackle sexism in video games (1) (2) (3)
• Heroes, villains and victories – the women who shaped 2014 (1) (2) (3)
• Intel pledges $300m for diversity in the tech sector (1) (2) (3)
• Twine: the program that’s democratised the video gaming world (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate: a brief history of a computer-age war (1) (2) (3)
• Gamergate hits new low with attempts to send Swat teams to critics (1)(2)(3)
• Why are some men so angry? (1) (2)
• In praise of (series)... Leigh Alexander, fighting back against Gamergate (1) (2)
• When everyone is a feminist, is anyone? (NOTE: appears tangential, but Jessica takes the opportunity to again push the narrative that GamerGate is about misogyny) (1) (2)
• Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles amid gamergate controversy (2)(3)
• When will gamers understand that criticism isn't censorship? (1)

Jason Wilson denied the existence of Cultural Marxism and compared Gamergate followers to Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik. Wilson had followed Shanley Kane one day before. Wilson had also supported Vox when it justified the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Allegations of collusion with Leigh Alexander

Useful article for this section

• Internal email shows Guardian had mind made up on Gamergate (1)

Affiliations

Collected Research

From 8chan:[2]

Leader 03/14/17 (Tue) 17:19:34 136381 No.330337

Everything links back to the Guardian.

Much of the clique goes back to Edge Magazine in the early 2000s. Edge's Keith Stewart is now the Guardian's games editor. Keith Stewart started the #WeLoveGameDevs hashtag campaign to cover up the fallout on the industry from the Zoe Post.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1smndje https://archive.is/mZCbD

The tweet: https://archive.is/gVwEG https://archive.is/DTxOk

Reports crediting Stewart: https://archive.is/V4Bb3 https://archive.is/tDzZC

News organizations participating in the coverup: https://archive.is/DTxOk

Guardian technology editor Jemima Kiss told staff "Leigh will be coming in to morning conference to talk about Gamergate." https://archive.is/8eHRH Leigh Alexander was then given a writing job at the Guardian and thrown out when they were done using her.

The writers for Five out of Ten Magazine include Depression Quest contributor Patrick Lindsey, Silverstring's Zoya Street, and the Guardian's Tauriq Moosa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140521044753/http://fiveoutoftenmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Five-out-of-Ten_8-Space_Preview.pdf

In 2013 the Guardian's Charles Arthur published an article about sexism in gaming based on one comment made by a fake account named Veronika Larsson. https://archive.is/Bq6gI

The Guardian's Chris Priestman wrote a fluff piece for Silverstring. http://archive.is/fnDFG

The Guardian published "Anna Anthropy and the Twine revolution." https://archive.today/ON3Jf

The Guardian publishes Jenn Frank. http://theralphretort.com/the-silverstring-agenda/ https://archive.is/urp7W

The Guardian quotes srhbutts. http://np.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/39fdi2/drama_the_guardian_just_sourced_butts_an_outed/

The Guardian quoted Mark Bernstein to falsely claim that ArbCom was banning all feminist editors. https://archive.is/3VDeJ

Nafeez Ahmed of Insurge Intelligence came out of nowhere to write a hit piece claiming "8chan.co, the central hive of GamerGate, is an active pedophile network." https://archive.is/nnsF3 Ahmed writes for Vice Motherboard and also for Middle East Eye which was funded by Guardian writer David Hearst

The Guardian is one of the outlets promoting the never-finished government-funded non-game Walden https://archive.is/Q28GH

The Guardian announced the formation of the DERP Institute, a social research partnership of Reddit, Fark, Imgur, Twitch, and StackExchange, the same day of its launch. https://archive.is/BPZnE https://archive.is/WuEGt https://archive.is/E0ZLV

The Guardian described Jessica Valenti of the Berkman Center as "one of the top 100 inspiring women in the world" https://archive.is/TmhiS

The Guardian's senior editor and partnerships strategy director Amanda Michel also worked at the Berkman Center as communications director from 2004-2006. She had leading positions in the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and co-founded the New Organizing Institute. https://archive.is/6x4YY

FitzGibbon Media was a PR firm that represented the Guardian. https://archive.is/9xKgw Trevor FitzGibbon was the New Mexico communications director for the Obama 2008 campaign and his organization was involved in some shady work https://archive.is/Trieh

The Guardian was among the media outlets accusing Sad Puppies of being a white male campaign, https://archive.is/NOBOO and promoted NK Jemison as "the fantasy writer upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'" https://archive.is/VdFs5

The Guardian's Connie St. Louis wrote "stop defending Tim Hunt" about the space scientist who was forced to apologise for wearing a Barbarella shirt that a lady friend had designed for him. https://archive.is/twb6N

The Guardian promoted Ellen Pao. https://archive.is/4AU6I

The Guardian was among the news organizations that wrote hit pieces on Palmer Luckey for supporting Trump. https://ghostbin.com/paste/aq2ca

The Guardian appointed Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia to its board. https://archive.is/GkWu3dd Wales has been seen with George Soros https://archive.is/L98o and a representative of DMI Trust / Ithmaar Bank. https://archive.is/sYAs5

The Guardian has a history of encouraging antisemitism and banning anyone who objects to it.

https://cifwatch.com/2009/08/24/welcome-to-cif-watch/

https://cifwatch.com/2009/08/31/very-cif-very-guardian/

https://cifwatch.com/2009/08/25/lies-big-lies-and-comment-is-free/

https://cifwatch.com/2009/08/28/finger-on-the-scale-debate-about-cif-watch-rages-at-cif/

https://cifwatch.com/2009/09/15/if-my-memri-serves-me-well/

https://cifwatch.com/2009/09/18/guardian-updates-the-cif-talk-policy%e2%80%a6well-not-exactly/

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/CommentIsFree_ParliamentASCttee_July08.pdf

The Guardian is the largest recipient of advertising revenue from HSBC. The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust whose board includes Anthony Salz, executive vice chairman of Rothschild, and Dame Liz Forgan, deputy board chair of British Museum which is sponsored by HSBC. HSBC laundered money for Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz of al-Raji Bank which was part of Osama bin Laden's Golden Chain network of key financiers and whose US operations were known as the SAAR Foundation or Safa Group. "HSBC went on to launder money for Mexican and Colombian drug-cartels, criminal syndicates run out of foreign embassies, and countries under US sanctions like Iran and North Korea."

https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/death-drugs-and-hsbc-355ed9ef5316 https://archive.is/Ey0lw

The Rockefellers, the Scardino family, and the British branch of Gamergate Leader 08/14/17 (Mon) 17:48:11 fd8fdf No.331045

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> Everything links back to the Guardian.

According to a report by Richard Pendlebury of the Daily Mail, the Media Standards Trust tried to usurp and replace the authority of the Press Complaints Commission. Pendlebury says they used a bogus research report and fake news reports in the Guardian to buff up their credentials, and were given unusually favorable coverage by the BBC. https://archive.is/8Aj2V

Key figures include:

* David Bell - chairman of the Financial Times

* Julia Middleton - of Demos, Rockefeller Brothers, Common Purpose

* Helena Kennedy - President of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and board member of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

* Albert Scardino - Executive editor of the Guardian 2002-2004

Vice and HBO

The Guardian established a partnership with Vice Media and HBO in December 2016.

Global Development Advisory Panel

The Guardian's Global Development Advisory Panel is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and includes Ethan Zuckerman, a Wikimedia Foundation board member who was accused in the Literally Who thread of involvement in Gamergate.

• Bono of the band U2, co-founder of One.org
• Ha-Joon Chang, economics professor at the University of Cambridge
• Paul Collier, economics professor at Oxford, former director of development at the World Bank (1998-2003)
• Alison Evans, director of the Overseas Development Institute
• Jayati Ghosh, Professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, school of social sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Dr. Teguest Guerma, Director general of Amref
• Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior fellow of the Climate Change Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development
• Marieme Jamme of SpotOne Global Solutions
• Martin Khor Kok Peng of the South Centre
• Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, vice-chairman of the World Economic Forum and business partner of George Soros
• Richard Manning, Chairman of the Institute of Development Studies
• Dr. Christie Peacock. Chief executive of Farm-Africa
• TMS Ruge, Co-founder of Project Diaspora
• Jeffrey D. Sachs: Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, professor of health policy and management at Columbia University, and co-founder of the Millennium Promise Alliance
• Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University
• Dr Vandana Shiva, environmentalist and author
• Clare Short, former international development secretary
• Rose Shuman, CEO of Question Box
• Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
• Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Director of The Royal Commonwealth Society
• Laura Turquet, Manager and co-author of Unifem report Progress of the World's Women
• Kevin Watkins, Director of Unesco's Education for All Global Monitoring Report
• Mark Weisbrot, Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Ethan Zuckerman, Senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Management

The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust Limited.

Past officers of the Scott Trust have included:

• Alexander Graham, 2012-2021
• Sir Anthony Michael Vaughan Salz, 2009-2020
• David Skipwith Pemdel, 2015-2019
• Philip Mark Trantor, 2012-2017
• William Nicholas Hutton, 2008-2017
• Dr. Sushil Baldev Wadhwani, 2015-2016
• Heather Stewart, 2011-2016
• Alan Charles Rusbridger, 2008-2016
• Dame Elizabeth Anne Lucy Forgan, 2008-2016
• Andrew Arthur Miller, 2010-2015
• Dr. Andrew Winston Mawdsley Graham, 2008-2015
• Jonathan Scott, 2008-2015
• Maleiha Malik, 2008-2014
• Geraldine Proudler, 2009-2013
• Philip Edward Boardman, 2008-2012
• Lawrence Brian Elliott, 2008-2011
• Carolyn Julia McCall, 2008-2010

As of 2021, the board of the Scott Trust includes:

• Emily Jane Bell, 2012-
• Catherine Alice Howarth, 2015-
• Stuart Graham Profitt, 2015-
• Vivian Luisa Schiller, 2015-
• Russell James Scott, 2015-
• Ole Jacob Sunde, 2015-
• Katharine Sophie Viner, 2015-
• Nils Martin Pratley, 2016-
• Stephen John Godsell, secretary, 2017-
• David Adetayo Olusoga, 2018-
• Matthew Conrad Ryder, 2020-
• Mary Ann Sieghart, 2020-
• Annette Christina Thomas, 2020-

Standards, and lacks thereof

Former Guardian writer Kate Bevan wrote a guide to smearing subjects with false accusations. As summarized by Mike Cernovich:

Step 1. When writing about someone, put in something true. Then "Throw in a false anecdote or two. Then, when you've got things suitably warmed up, the fun can begin."

Step 2. "And do it in a space they don't control. It's no good doing it on their Facebook page or blog, where they can delete comments."

Step 3. Write an article where reader comments are not allowed.

The website Comment Is Free Watch was launched to criticize the Guardian's practice of censoring user comments which supported Israel. CiFWatch changed its name to UK Media Watch and was absorbed into CAMERA.

• "Why Was This Deleted?" archive of CiF posts

CiFWatch sarcastically reported on Avaaz as:

the “progressive” (Guardian approved) group, Avaaz – astroturfing for Hamas.

Craig Murray and Paul Craig Roberts have accused the Guardian of telling "deliberate lies" about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The Guardian denounced critics of the White Helmets.

References

1. ↑ Image showing Guardian censorship of comment section