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Brianna Wu appalled at FBI’s #GamerGate investigative report

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed a heavily redacted report on its investigation into the #GamerGate controversy, where female game developers and critics received multiple death threats for being outspoken about diversity issues.

The FBI released the 173-page report under a Freedom of Information Act request, but most of the details, including the identity of people who were either victims or alleged online harassers, were redacted. But the report clearly shows that the FBI didn’t take the investigation very seriously and let off harassers with simple warnings, said Brianna Wu, one of the primary targets of #GamerGate.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.