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It’s not always that the opportunity to work on Vladimir Putin’s dime presents itself, but when long-term advocate of Gamergate Sophia Narwitz was prompted to take it, reservations about Russia Today’s editorial bottomline were apparently a secondary concern. To gain a cursory understanding of who Narwitz is, consider her the result of a threeway mating between Blaire White, Jeremy ‘TheQuartering’ Hambly and Andy Ngo–if presuming disingenuity and bad-faith was your first instinct, then you’ve guessed correctly.
When Narwitz was first an unknown quantity in the discourse, there was still no telling what her true motives are–the media first caught wind of her when she somewhat unceremoniously broke the story of an ill-fated E3 leak back in August of 2019, then she underwent a slow transition from being strictly preoccupied with the dynamics of the gaming industry to becoming a regular chronicler of the culture war for Russia Today by November of the same year. Once that transition was complete, it had become clear that much like her analogues on the right, she’d come to view her contributions to the reactionary world purely as a means to self-enrich–intellectual inquiry be damned, she was not to leave this world without having…
