**Gamergate**: A word used to describe the events following on from an otherwise minor scandal, where rumors that a [games journalist] had a relationship with a developer that he hadn't disclosed during his coverage were met with a series of articles from across the specialized gaming press, in an apparent attempt to [demonize] their own readership, coordinated behind the scenes on a secret [mailing] list.
*Gamergate represented a massive failure of journalistic [ethics] and was responsible for a number of people [losing trust] in games related media and even the [wider] news industry.*
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