digital media

  • Hearthstone Streamer Swatted Live On Twitch

    Hearthstone Streamer Swatted Live On Twitch

    Twitch streamer Alexandra “Alliestrasza” Macpherson, a prominent Hearthstone player and a member of esports organisation Fade 2 Karma, was arrested on February 9. But it wasn’t her fault. She was swatted while playing the collectible card game live on stream, with police showing up fully strapped and ready to take down whatever threat was lurking…


  • How the 2019 Christchurch Massacre Changed Facebook Forever

    How the 2019 Christchurch Massacre Changed Facebook Forever

    On March 15, 2019, a heavily armed white supremacist named Brenton Tarrant walked into two separate mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and opened fire, killing 51 Muslim worshippers and wounding countless others. Close to 20 minutes of the carnage from one of the attacks was livestreamed on Facebook — and when the company tried taking…