After online threats, gaming engineer plans run for Congress

 

December 23, 2016



BOSTON (AP) — In the gaming world, Brianna Wu has earned a reputation battling the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate, a fight that led to rape and murder threats from the darker recesses of the male-dominated realm.

Now the 39-year-old Boston-based software engineer is setting her sights on another male-dominated institution: Congress.

Wu, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, said she made the decision almost immediately after the November election.

"On election night I was standing 30 feet from where Hillary should have accepted the presidency. I had planned to go back to Bos...



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