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The Game Awards' first Game Changers recipient responds to "hateful" and "disturbing" comments accusing him of fraud


Amir Satvat was the recipient of the first 'Game Changers' award at The Game Awards last week, but has since received "…

Yet since last week, he's been subjected to abuse online due to his current work at Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent. Due to his work as a business development director at Tencent, Satvat has been accused of being some sort of agent or plant exploiting the community, or that he's a fraud, he wrote. "This stems from one innocent, erroneous mention of what I do in a Level Infinite article, since corrected to show I only work on investments."

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