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Leigh Alexander
the Guardian
Previously: Boing Boing, Edge Writer, Gamasutra Editor at large, Kotaku, Offworld Editor-in-Chief, Vice
Following the publicity of her other conflicts of interest, she has been accused of writing about Carl Icahn without disclosing his being a major investor of her then-employer Gamasutra's parent company UBM. While the coverage exists, Icahn's involvement in UBM has been mistakenly inferred from a widget that is actually present on every page of that section of the source site. Site doesn't list Icahn owning UBM stock on either his page or UBM's.
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