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‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire

By Michael Blaustein

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February 24, 2015 | 5:07pm
Modal Trigger ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online
threats were satire
Jan Rankowski, who posted online as a character called Jace Connors,
claims that his threats against female game developer Brianna Wu were

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And those death threats he made against the female game developer? They
were all part of a big satirical joke, according to Rankowski.

Posing as Connors, Rankowski made headlines when he posted a terrifying

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