‘Valorant’ pro Sinatraa has been suspended amid sexual assault allegations

Posted on 10/03/2021 by Engadget

Esports organization Sentinels has suspended Valorant pro Jay "Sinatraa" Won following accusations of sexual assault. Sentinels said it's investigating the matter. "While the investigation is pending, he is suspended from the team....

New Jersey law bars doxxing campaigns against judges, prosecutors and police

Posted on 22/11/2020 by Engadget

It’s now illegal to conduct doxxing campaigns against the justice system in New Jersey. Gothamist reports that state Governor Phil Murphy has signed Daniel’s Law, a measure barring the publication (primarily on the internet) of home addresses and unl...

Pinterest’s moderation doesn’t catch some abusive and false material

Posted on 13/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Pinterest has received kudos for moderation that relies on customizing search results to hide or counter material, but it appears to have its limits. OneZero has discovered numerous cases where Pinterest’s moderation didn’t catch some abusive or fals...

Three Ubisoft executives leave amid misconduct allegations

Posted on 12/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

More executives are leaving Ubisoft in the wake of misconduct allegations. The company has announced (via Kotaku) that Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoët has resigned immediately after Libération claims he enabled misconduct by other executives, in...

An Ubisoft VP has resigned following assault and misconduct allegations

Posted on 06/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Maxime Béland, Ubisoft’s vice-president of editorial, has resigned following accusations of assault and misconduct that emerged in recent weeks. Kotaku first reported that Béland had stepped down and Ubisoft has confirmed his resignation to Engadget....

Ubisoft CEO lays out a plan to change the company’s toxic culture

Posted on 03/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A week after launching investigations into many claims of harassment and misconduct, Ubisoft’s CEO gave an update on what the company is doing to change things. In a letter posted on its website and emailed to employees, Yves Guillemot said “the type...

Twitch responds to sexual abuse accusations, bans several streamers

Posted on 25/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Several days after saying it was “actively looking into” accounts of sexual harassment and abuse by streamers on its platform, Twitch has an update on its progress so far. In a blog post published Wednesday evening, the Amazon-owned live streaming si...

Facebook, Google and others adopt guidelines intended to fight child abuse

Posted on 05/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security -- along with government counterparts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom -- published guidelines to help the tech industry fight online child exploitation. The princip...

‘CS:GO’ will soon mute abusive players by default

Posted on 08/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Valve is working on a new moderation system for CS:GO that could finally give toxic players pause. This upcoming system will warn players if they receive significantly more abuse reports than their peers and punishes them if they ignore it. How? Well...

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