[ev1]

> And yet when she shared her experience with other women at the conference, she found that she wasn’t alone—many others had received the same treatment from the Blizzard recruitment booth as well

I would doubt that a company would publicly post this due to liability otherwise

[taurath]

Turns out journalists check their sources, lest they get sued for libel

[ta392828]

Turns out people lie (even in court, but let's just focus on the innocent until proven guilty part)

https://reason.com/2018/10/17/seneca-valley-mean-girls-false...

[taurath]

And when there’s a documented pattern to the point that lawsuits are filed with evidence and testimony, AND the person telling the story has very little to personally gain (and a lot to lose since conservative Twitter tends to send death threats over things like this), you tend to take the one more likely.

Further, if you read the article there is a literal whole company with a business relationship that was cancelled with blizzard over this. I think you really really really should do some soul searching on what makes you have a knee-jerk reaction that they're making it up.

But also, news organizations are cognizant that their credibility takes a hit if they just publish every single accusation regardless of attribution.

[ev1]

I mean, some don't. But that quote was apparently from a publicly posted (on the company Twitter), redacted letter to Blizzard from the person's employer after Blizzard tried to become a customer.