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