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Gamersgate was a Russian Op, a trial run for 2016. They've been meddling with social media for a while.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/russia-s-social-media-propaganda-was-hiding-plain-sight-ncna816886

Since 2014, women have begged Twitter to stop the mass harassment typified by misogynist campaigns like Gamergate. Several protagonists accused of participating in the harassment, like former Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos, were tied to the Trump campaign. Also in 2014, black women on Twitter noticed a spate of accounts posing as hostile black users and outed the fakers under the hashtag #YourSlipIsShowing. Three years later, researchers have confirmed such attempts were part of a Russian propaganda operation intended to exacerbate racial tension.

They're actively spreading conspiracies and trying to sow division in America to cause internal strife. Gamersgate was one of them.

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