John Scotus<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gamergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamergate</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/endoftruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endoftruth</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a><br>Gamergate’s “most powerful legacy is as proof of concept of how to wage a post-truth information war.”<br>Gamergate gave rise to a pattern of sowing confusion and chaos in the information landscape. Participants elevated new conspiracies and used memes and ironic rhetoric to send coded signals, allowing them to claim plausible deniability about troubling aspects of the movement. Steve Bannon saw Gamergate as a way to recruit disaffected young men into Trump's campaign, per a 2017 book by Bloomberg journalist Joshua Green.“What we have in Gamergate is a glimpse of how these skirmishes will unfold in the future—all the rhetorical weaponry and siegecraft of an internet comment section brought to bear on our culture, not just at the fringes but at the center.“What we’re seeing now is a rehearsal, where the mechanisms of a toxic and inhumane politics are being tested and improved.”</p>