Activision Sues California Agency, Seeking Media Message Traffic

Activision Blizzard Inc. sued the California Civil Rights Department to get communications the game company contends show the agency is using media to push the video game maker into a sexual discrimination and harassment case settlement.

The California Civil Rights Department “unlawfully” sued Activision in July 2021 and “deliberately unleashed a hurricane of hostile media coverage against the Company based on malicious and knowingly false assertions,” the company alleged in its complaint filed under the state’s Public Records Act. “It also worked with activists who contributed to the CRD’s media war. This was neither an accident nor a coincidence.”

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