#online-backlash

#online-backlash

Last year, Assassin's Creed Shadows became a target for right-wing culture warriors ranging from random shareholders to Elon Musk. In a recent video shown at Paris Games Week, Ubisoft reportedly tried to take back ownership of the narrative surrounding the attacks and demonstrate a potential playbook for dealing with haters online. How much of it is just spin remains to be seen, but it's an unusual move for a company that usually shrinks from controversy.

A self-proclaimed "MAGA Dentist" is facing backlash after a video of her joking about turning down pain-relieving gas for liberal patients at her Santa Clarita clinic blew up online. Dr. Harleen Grewal of Skyline Smiles made this quip and other wisecracks about her distaste for left-leaning clients during a speech at the Republican Liberty Gala in 2021, comments that recently attracted mass attention after a video of the speech went viral on TikTok.

'Nothing can prepare you for playing a traitor. It's such high stakes'