I’ve seen Gamergate cretins accusing me of wanting to protect Malka because we had him on Kotaku for an AMA a couple of years ago and I didn’t pay close attention to the comments, many of which brought up the Spain post and other allegations. Earlier today I went back and checked my history and found that back then there was a brigade post on the vile, racist website “NeoFAG.” From what I remember, I assumed those were horrible people just trying to get a rise out of Malka and Kotaku. (There’s also a lot of misunderstanding floating around about the way Kotaku comments work — during an AMA, the person answering questions is the one who filters and answers them. We don’t force people to answer questions they don’t want to answer.)
“It’s a bit frustrating to see people accusing me of trying to protect Malka when I’ve spent half my weekend on this story, while traveling to and from Las Vegas for a book festival at that. (I just helped edit this article from the airport and am actually on the plane right now.) Needless to say, I did not and would never try to cover up anything like this.
