About this: https://twitter.com/maverikou/status/522797498411540480 (http://imgur.com/8iAPNvT)
If I were to apply Occam's razor to the two narratives that are presented there, then I'd say it's 50-50 which one is "more simple" and more likely. However - these narratives are NOT AT ALL of what's happening, as far as I can tell!
My understanding:
A bunch of deranged morons decided to issue death and rape threads to handful of women in the industry (death threats are nothing new - men get them all the time too; rape threats men don't get so often). They cover it upon some "these industry figures did massive crimes involving media coverage and used their influence to bend the media". A lot more of reasonable gamers get behind the cause, since of course, games media has a bunch of issues; and there's a bunch of corruption between developers/publishers/media. The cause is a good one. Many reasonable people can get behind that good cause.
However all the claims and targets of this particular campaign are absolutely misguided. A handful of small & indie women from the industry are accused of, I don't know, having a boyfriend, or writing an article with a gross overgeneralization, and seemingly they have some massive conspiracy with the games media in order to gain some mysterious benefit. What are these benefits, and what are these horrible crimes & corruption I could never quite get.
A handful of women in the games industry did shady practices, and are using their massive influence & ties with the games media to create a massive scandal that would take the attention away from said shady practices (which include having a journalist boyfriend who can potentially write a better review for a free game). Faking death & rape threats and moving from their homes is the best way to achieve that. After the whole media will rally to their cause, these handful of women will get massive benefit of, uhm, something.
First narrative - sounds pretty simple to me. There are thousands of deranged morons on the internet, directing their attention to whatever target they choose. Reasonable people getting behind "games media are corrupted!" slogan is also easily doable.
Second narrative - I don't see what these handful of industry figures did wrong; how they have some massive influence in the media; or what personal/business gain they can possibly have by inventing this whole thing. All it boils down to is "someone knows someone" (shock horror), "someone hyperbolizes situation in a gamasutra article" (shock horror) and "a woman says she plays games but does not enjoy many of them" (no shit, that should be capital offence).
Now, of course there's plenty of corruption in games media and publisher relationships! That should be talked about. But the cases that GG talks about are not that!