Journalists and Content Creators Exposed For Coordinated Pro Xbox/Anti PS5 Coverage Via Leaked Discord Messages

Klobrille, XboxEra, and Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia Among Members

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“The server included some well known members, like Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry, Klobrille, doncabesa (XboxEra founder), and oggmeiler, who was openly racist toward Shuhei Yoshida. When their conversations were leaked, they exposed a coordinated effort to spread misinformation, clear bias against PlayStation, and even attempts to get PlayStation users banned from ResetEra. Once the leaks became public, Colbert panicked, deleted the server, and tried to cover his tracks by creating a new one.

All the FUD back then, claims about the PS5 overheating, rumors that Sony reworked the console at the last minute, and the nonsense about it being only 9 teraflops or even lower, came straight from this Discord server. The fact that even Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry was involved raises serious questions about bias in gaming media.”

This was shared on ResetEra years ago, but the folks got the dude banned.

Tons more is available on Twitter right now. I will update with more soon.

Makes me wonder if certain people here are being paid to endorse MS 🤣

Juicy 😬

Gamepass is the absolute best thing in the world! And it's totally free! That's insane #value

Thank you Phil 🙏

The sauces sauce is from April 2020? **double checks** nope not a necro thread. This is just a link to another gamer forum with users no more bona fide than the the industry insiders that grace these forums.

Cows resorting to victimhood is never good, that's usually the step before "I hate this place and never coming back" kind of talk. We need every pathetic die hard to keep this place interesting.

This seems very concerning. 🤔

Console wars are always a thing, along with victim playing. It is what it is. The issue is agenda pushing.

The only name of note is Digital Foundry, since people do go to their videos for how powerful a console is. Though other than that, there isn't proof of industry bias against Sony. It seems like just a few people, who happen to work in the industry, don't like Sony.

@SolidGame_basic: That's hysterical coming from you. You've done nothing but kiss Sony's arse for 22yrs, yes 22yrs.

Sony's probably paid off your mortgage by now 🤣🤣🤣

PS...and you never enter anti Sony threads (unless you're trying to defend them) hence why you stayed away from my PSN is down thread, did you enjoy your free copy of Concord 🤣🤣🤣

@ghostofgolden: Slow "Xbox is bad" news day Golden 🤣

Bringing up stuff on a forum from 5yrs ago, this is what you call rock bottom folks 🤦‍♂️

You don't need misinformation to make consoles look bad. They do that on their own. LOL

The biggest news is that people actually care enough about Sony vs Xbox to make threads about it in 2025 (or 2020).

I remember when this leaked. I don't think it's much of a secret that Era was astroturf central for MS. The modship there favors Xbox like the mods do here. Not that it ever worked in Xbox's favor.

The problem with that ambassador program was that they were getting the worst of the worst to promote Xbox products and it seemed to create a negative effect against them. Was always entertaining to watch it implode though

lol :P

I'd be surprised, because it would be a waste of money.

These old dinky forums are less than 1% the overall audience of Players. Any assumed paid fanboi would be better-off shilling on Reddit, Twitch or X.

Sounds like they tried a 'Playstation Tax' lol

Xbox could use some extra help boosting their console, but I guess they weren't effective?