OLD Media Moves

How WSJ reporter Carreyrou became target in video game

April 13, 2018

Posted by Chris Roush

John Carreyrou
John Carreyrou

Kif Leswing of Business Insider writes about how Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou became the target in a Space Invaders video game created by employees at Theranos, the blood-testing company that he exposed for fraudulent business dealings.

Leswing writes, “Not only did Theranos employees once chant ‘f— you, Carreyrou’ at an all-hands meeting, but employees even built a ‘Space Invaders’-style game in which players were to shoot little pictures of Carreyrou’s head, as well as the Zika virus, he tweeted on Thursday.

On Friday, he obtained a picture of the game, “Haters’ gonna Hate v1.5.”

Carreyrou wrote that the game’s creator got in touch with him and would eventually send him the full game so he could play it.

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