John Walker

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John Walker

Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Co-owner

Twitter Personal site

Cronyism

Apparent

Cronyism

About

Covered the videogames Volume, two times, and Kelvin and the Infamous Machine, also twice. Both games were customers of Agency for Games, a company owned and founded by fellow journalist Leigh Alexander, who appears to have a friendly relationship with Walker—exchanging tweets since 2009, and attempting to meet up at least once. Alexander has also been contributing to Rock, Paper, Shotgun from July 2014, overlapping Walker’s much previous participation. Walker’s articles contain no disclosure of this relationship.

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Date

2016 Aug 03

Filed

2016 Oct 13

Dishonesty

Apparent

Dishonesty

About

Published a scandalmongering article on the flimsy Max Temkin rape allegations, then one month later stated that posting private information on his site would get you banned, despite the person involved being, admittedly, by her standards, a rapist.

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Date

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Filed

2015 May 02

Falsely claimed to have received death threats from GamerGate.

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Filed

2015 May 02

Dishonesty

Possible

Dishonesty

About

When a GamerGate meetup was evacuated due to a bomb threat he stated it was not worth covering claiming his site doesn't cover this kind of thing.

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Date

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Filed

2015 May 02

This journalist’s career means they might be subject to slight asymmetric scrutiny.

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