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== Key people ==

* [[Bill Gates]] is affiliated with [[Alwaleed bin Talal]] and other billionaires through the [[Breakthrough Energy Coalition]].<ref name="breakthrough"/>
** Gates held a strategic meeting in 2009 with [[George Soros]], [[David Rockefeller]], [[Michael Bloomberg]], [[Oprah Winfrey]], [[Ted Turner]], [[Warren Buffett]], [[Eli Broad]], [[Julian Robertson]] of the [[Environmental Defense Fund]], and former Gates Foundation CEO [[Patty Stonesifer]].<ref name="billionaires"/>
* [[Ed Fries]], founder of Microsoft Game Studios, is affiliated with [[Phil Fish]], [[Eric Zimmerman]], and [[Rami Ismail]] through [[Execution Labs]]
* [[Samir Ramji]] and [[Bryan Kirschner]], Microsoft's former heads of [[Open Source]] strategy, were among the 16 employees of [[Apigee]] which served clients in the Middle East.
** Apigee's head of developer relations [[Shanley Kane]] co-founded [[Model View Culture]].
* [[Kate Edwards]], Microsoft's first Geopolitical Strategist, was head of the [[International Game Developers Association]] and was among the people following [[OpGamergate]].
* [[Suhail Khan]], Microsoft Director of External Affairs, was an attorney at [[WilmerHale]] and a board member of [[Voto Latino]].
** [[WilmerHale]] provided a team of three attorneys for [[Zoe Quinn]]'s lawsuit against [[Eron Gjoni]].
** Khan was recruited by [[Fred Humphries]], Microsoft’s vice president of U.S. government affairs<ref name="khan_humphries" />
** Khan's father Mahboob Khan co-founded the [[Islamic Society of North America]].
* [[Sue Bohle]], Microsoft's first PR agent, planted [[Nick Wingfield]]'s New York Times article "Feminist Critics of Video Games Facing Threats in GamerGate Campaign" featuring [[Anita Sarkeesian]]
** The Bohle Company manages the [[Game Developers Conference]], [[Penny Arcade Expo]], and [[Serious Games Association]]
[[William Neukom]], Microsoft's lead attorney from 1978 to 2002, is on the boards of
the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]] at [[Stanford University]], the Dean's Council at [[Stanford Law School]], the [[World Justice Project]], the [[Pacific Council on International Policy]]
* [[Microsoft Research]] hosted the [[2012 Social Computing Symposium]] at [[Fuse Labs]] whose attendees included [[Anil Dash]], [[Clive Shirky]], [[Del Harvey]], [[Joi Ito]], [[Katie Salen]], and representatives of [[USC Annenberg]], [[Betaworks]], [[Awesome Foundation]], an [[Global Voices]].
* [[danah boyd]] of Microsoft Research is affiliated with the [[Kinder and Braver World Project]] / Born This Way Foundation which is affiliated with the [[MacArthur Foundation]], [[Berkman Center]], [[California Endowment]], [[Blue State Digital]], [[WME Foundation]], and [[Proskauer Rose]]

== Microsoft and Gamergate figures ==

=== Microsoft and Phil Fish ===

The Creative/Production team of Microsoft's Execution Labs included [[Phil Fish]], [[Eric Zimmerman]], [[Jonathan Blow]], [[Heather Kelley]], and [[Mare Sheppard]]. <ref name="execution labs_creative" />

The Mentors team of Execution Labs included [[Ed Fries]] and [[Sue Bohle]] of Microsoft and [[Rami Ismail]] of [[Vlambeer]].<ref name="execution_labs_mentors" />

=== Microsoft and Anita Sarkeesian ===

According to the Washington Post: <ref name="edwards_tsukayama" />
: [[Kate Edwards | Edwards]] has been a vocal supporter of [[Anita Sarkeesian | Sarkeesian]] and of the two other women who've been threatened the most, developers [[Zoe Quinn]] and [[Brianna Wu]].

=== Microsoft and Randi Harper ===

Microsoft search engine Bing incorporated [[GGAutoblocker]], filtering out Kentucky Fried Chicken from its search results.<ref name="bing_kfc"/>

=== Microsoft and Brianna Wu ===

[[Brianna Wu]] visited Microsoft headquarters and announced a partnership with Microsoft within days of becoming involved in Gamergate.

* July 1, 2014 "I have contacts at Microsoft" <ref name="wu_1" />
* September 16, 2014 "We're currently working with Microsoft looking at other venues." <ref name="wu_2" />
* September 30, 2014 "Microsoft HQ is pretty posh." <ref name="wu_3" />
* October 9, 2014 " my company is in the middle of a partnership with MS" <ref name="wu_4" />

Wu began receiving harassing tweets from "chatterwhiteman" within days of announcing the partnership with Microsoft.

==The Gates Foundation==

The Gates Foundation is affiliated with:

* The [[Bridgespan Group]] and [[Yad Hanadiv]], the Rothschild Foundation, through [[Fay Twersky]], Director of Impact Planning and Investment for the Gates Foundation; [[Nick O'Donohoe]], Senior Adviser for Blended Finance at the Gates Foundation; [[Brian Trelstad]], CIO of the Acumen Fund which is funded by the Gates Foundation and was advised by Louis Boorstin of the Gates Foundation.
* [[George Soros]] and [[Wadah Khanfar]] through the [[International Crisis Group]], which is funded by the Gates Foundation<ref name="icg_sourcewatch" />
* [[John Doerr]], [[Sheryl Sandberg]], [[Mo Ibrahim]], [[Larry Summers]], [[Morton Halperin]], and others through [[One.org]] whose board includes [[Mark Suzman]], chief strategy officer of the Gates Foundation
** [[Joseph Cerrell]], Global Managing Director of the Gates Foundation, is a board member of One.org
** [[Warren Buffett]] is a Gates Foundation board member
** [[Connie Collingsworth]] is on the boards of [[Women's World Banking]] and the [[Gates Foundation]]
** [[Mimi Ito]] of [[DMLHub]] through [[Carina Wong]], head of education investing for the Gates Foundation
** [[The Institute of Play]], whose board includes [[Steven Masur]] of [[Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation]], [[Robert Gehorsam]] of Sony, Viacom, and CBS, [[Eric Zimmerman]], and [[Katie Salen]], funded by Carina Wong
** The Institute of Play is hosted at Parsons, the New School<ref name="iop_parsons"/> formerly known as the [[Frankfurt School]]
** The [[UN Broadband Commission]] through [[Jessica Dorr]] of the Gates Foundation
** [[Milo Yiannopolous]] through [[Young Rewired State]] and the [[Indigo Trust]]
** [[Transgender]] through [[Surita Sandosham]] and [[Stefano Fabeni]] of [[The Heartland Alliance]] and [[Synergos]].
** [[David Washington]] of the [[White House Office of Public Engagement]] and [[California Endowment]], interim CEO of the Gates Foundation
* [[Katelyn Sabochik]], senior communications officer at the Gates Foundation, was Director of New Media at the U.S. Department of Interior, joined White House New Media team in 2010, senior strategist at [[Blue State Digital]], Political Online Communications Coordinator at [[AFL-CIO]], and is affiliated with the [[New Organizing Institute]].
* [[Susan Desmond-Hellman]], CEO of the Gates Foundation, is [[UC San Francisco]] chancellor and a board member of Facebook
* [[Avaaz]] through [[Ricken Patel]], a former Gates Foundation employee
* [[Michael Sulik]] of the CIA National Clandestine Service and [[Blake Mobley]] of the Century Foundation's Homeland Security Project through the [[Threat Pattern]] company of [[Trevor Neilson]], Director of Special Projects and Director of Public Affairs for the Gates Foundation.
* [[Farah Pandith]] through [[Planet 50-50]], an initiative of [[UN Women]] supported by Melinda Gates
* The [[Ad Council]] through [[Daniel Greenstein]], director of postsecondary education for the Gates Foundation
* The [[Common Core]] educational project<ref>http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-ambitions-of-bill-and-melinda-gates-controlling-population-and-public-education</ref>
* [[Leigh Morgan]], former COO of the Gates Foundation, is a member of [[Duke University]]'s [[Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship]] (CASE)
* [[Helene Gayle]] of CARE USA, was with the Gates Foundation from 2000-2005
* [[Melissa Hagemann]] of the [[Open Society Foundations]] served on the Gates Foundation's Global Library Initiative.
* The [[International Fact Checking Network]] run in partnership with the [[Open Society Foundations]] and the [[Omidyar Network]]
* [[Medium.com]] is directly funded by the Gates Foundation, receiving $400k in 2015.

The Gates Foundation controls the Global Good Fund and the Greenbriar Equity Fund.

== References ==
<references>

<ref name="wu_1">Brianna Wu, ''@simon_lindsell it's not impossible. I have contacts at Microsoft, and we're thinking about it.'', 1:25 PM - 1 Jul 2014, https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/484070237416206336 https://archive.is/wGm2i</ref>
<ref name="wu_2">Brianna Wu, ''We're currently working with Microsoft looking at other venues. Stay tuned. @breakthesystem'', 5:58 AM - 16 Sep 2014, https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/511861607195242496 https://archive.is/AZuSH</ref>
<ref name="wu_3">Brianna Wu, ''Have to be honest. Microsoft HQ is pretty posh.'', 12:31 PM - 30 Sep 2014, https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/517033947403153409 https://archive.is/Ph1X3</ref>
<ref name="wu_4">Brianna Wu, ''@rockmedia @bayareadivorce @njlitigator I think my company is in the middle of a partnership with MS, so I feel like I can't really voice.'', 3:56 PM - 9 Oct 2014, https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/520347005185687553 https://archive.is/vrHhM</ref>

<ref name="bing_kfc">@nomineeforall, ''Hey @Bing - Care to explain what the @kfc Colonel did wrong? #GamerGate'', 8 Dec 2014, https://twitter.com/nomineeforfail/status/541968578300633088 https://archive.is/W9u6d</ref>

<ref name="edwards_tsukayama">Hayley Tsukayama, ''Gamergate 'personal attacks and threats have to stop', say E3 organisers'', Washington Post, Thursday 16 October 2014, https://archive.today/sPDQc</ref>

<ref name="execution labs_creative">Mentors / Creative, Execution Labs, http://executionlabs.com/mentors#creative https://archive.is/x4Odn</ref>
<ref name="execution_labs_mentors">Mentors, Execution Labs,
https://web.archive.org/web/20131101210115/http://executionlabs.com/fr/mentors</ref>

<ref name="billionaires">Robert Frank, Top Billionaires Hold Secret Meeting, Wall Street Journal, May 20 2009 https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/05/26/billionaires-try-to-shrink-worlds-population-report-says/ http://archive.fo/Q0whh</ref>

<ref name="iop_parsons">Quest to Learn, Inside Schools, https://web.archive.org/web/20150316145119/http://insideschools.org/component/schools/school/1622</ref>

<ref name="breakthrough">Breakthrough Energy Coalition, http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/who.html https://archive.is/e7uS9</ref>
<ref name="icg_sourcewatch">International Crisis Group, Sourcewatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Crisis_Group https://archive.is/ixZuM</ref>

<ref name="khan_humphries">Catherine Ho, New public affairs director for Microsoft, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/new-public-affairs-director-for-microsoft/2011/06/23/AGlkg9lH_story.html https://archive.is/S3nC9</ref>

</references>

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 ** Apigee's head of developer relations [[Shanley Kane]] co-founded [[Model View Culture]].
 * [[Kate Edwards]], Microsoft's first Geopolitical Strategist, was head of the [[International Game Developers Association]] and was among the people following [[OpGamergate]].
-* [[Suhail Khan]], Microsoft Director of External Affairs, is a board member of Voto Latino.<ref name="khan_voto" />
+* [[Suhail Khan]], Microsoft Director of External Affairs, is affiliated with Voto Latino.<ref name="khan_voto" />
 ** Khan was recruited by [[Fred Humphries]], Microsoft’s vice president of U.S. government affairs<ref name="khan_humphries" />
 ** Khan's father Mahboob Khan co-founded the [[Islamic Society of North America]].

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 * [[Sue Bohle]], Microsoft's first PR agent, planted [[Nick Wingfield]]'s New York Times article "Feminist Critics of Video Games Facing Threats in GamerGate Campaign" featuring [[Anita Sarkeesian]]
 ** The Bohle Company manages the [[Game Developers Conference]], [[Penny Arcade Expo]], and [[Serious Games Association]]
 * [[William Neukom]], Microsoft's lead attorney from 1978 to 2002, is on the boards of the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]] at [[Stanford University]], the Dean's Council at [[Stanford Law School]], the [[World Justice Project]], the [[Pacific Council on International Policy]]
 * [[Microsoft Research]] hosted the [[2012 Social Computing Symposium]] at [[Fuse Labs]] whose attendees included [[Anil Dash]], [[Clive Shirky]], [[Del Harvey]], [[Joi Ito]], [[Katie Salen]], and representatives of [[USC Annenberg]], [[Betaworks]], [[Awesome Foundation]], an [[Global Voices]].

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 * [[John Doerr]], [[Sheryl Sandberg]], [[Mo Ibrahim]], [[Larry Summers]], [[Morton Halperin]], and others through [[One.org]] whose board includes [[Mark Suzman]], chief strategy officer of the Gates Foundation
 ** [[Joseph Cerrell]], Global Managing Director of the Gates Foundation, is a board member of One.org
-** [[Warren Buffett]] is a Gates Foundation board member
+* [[Warren Buffett]] is a Gates Foundation board member
-** [[Connie Collingsworth]] is on the boards of [[Women's World Banking]] and the [[Gates Foundation]]
+* [[Connie Collingsworth]] is on the boards of [[Women's World Banking]] and the [[Gates Foundation]]
-** [[Mimi Ito]] of [[DMLHub]] through [[Carina Wong]], head of education investing for the Gates Foundation
+* [[Mimi Ito]] of [[DMLHub]] through [[Carina Wong]], head of education investing for the Gates Foundation
-** [[The Institute of Play]], whose board includes [[Steven Masur]] of [[Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation]], [[Robert Gehorsam]] of Sony, Viacom, and CBS, [[Eric Zimmerman]], and [[Katie Salen]], funded by Carina Wong
+* [[The Institute of Play]], whose board includes [[Steven Masur]] of [[Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation]], [[Robert Gehorsam]] of Sony, Viacom, and CBS, [[Eric Zimmerman]], and [[Katie Salen]], funded by Carina Wong
 ** The Institute of Play is hosted at Parsons, the New School<ref name="iop_parsons"/> formerly known as the [[Frankfurt School]]
-** The [[UN Broadband Commission]] through [[Jessica Dorr]] of the Gates Foundation
+* The [[UN Broadband Commission]] through [[Jessica Dorr]] of the Gates Foundation
-** [[Milo Yiannopolous]] through [[Young Rewired State]] and the [[Indigo Trust]]
+* [[Milo Yiannopolous]] through [[Young Rewired State]] and the [[Indigo Trust]]
-** [[Transgender]] through [[Surita Sandosham]] and [[Stefano Fabeni]] of [[The Heartland Alliance]] and [[Synergos]].
+* [[Transgender]] through [[Surita Sandosham]] and [[Stefano Fabeni]] of [[The Heartland Alliance]] and [[Synergos]].
-** [[David Washington]] of the [[White House Office of Public Engagement]] and [[California Endowment]], interim CEO of the Gates Foundation
+* [[David Washington]] of the [[White House Office of Public Engagement]] and [[California Endowment]], interim CEO of the Gates Foundation
 * [[Katelyn Sabochik]], senior communications officer at the Gates Foundation, was Director of New Media at the U.S. Department of Interior, joined White House New Media team in 2010, senior strategist at [[Blue State Digital]], Political Online Communications Coordinator at [[AFL-CIO]], and is affiliated with the [[New Organizing Institute]].
 * [[Susan Desmond-Hellman]], CEO of the Gates Foundation, is [[UC San Francisco]] chancellor and a board member of Facebook