Trusting the sincerity of people on the internet is a constant trial. Following a male journalist’s experiment of writing about games under a female pseudonym, Geek.com’s Charles Battersby interviewed IGDA Executive Director Kate Edwards on the instance:
“Anytime someone resorts to fraud and conscious manipulation for the purpose of self-amusement, social demonstration or any other purpose, it degrades the [true] value of expression on the internet and therefore affects people’s ability to trust what they read.”
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