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06-11-2017, 12:15 AM
Racist 'Madden' player featured in EA's E3 press conference
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During its E3 2017 press conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BB0ambDQw) today, EA spent a few minutes talking about its sports games and their competitive communities. One of the players featured in their supercut of pro sports game players was Chris "Dubby" McFarland, a Madden player who was fined and forced to apologize after EA Sports **ticed his habit of tweeting out racist messages.
Dubby won $75,000 for his first-place finish at the Madden Bowl 2017 tournament in February and was fined $3,000 after tweeting multiple offensive messages. After people went back through his timeline and found a handful of racist tweets, Dubby decided the best course of action would be to write more. The new set of tweets were apparently what landed him the fine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/10/ea-e3-racist-madden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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During its E3 2017 press conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BB0ambDQw) today, EA spent a few minutes talking about its sports games and their competitive communities. One of the players featured in their supercut of pro sports game players was Chris "Dubby" McFarland, a Madden player who was fined and forced to apologize after EA Sports **ticed his habit of tweeting out racist messages.
Dubby won $75,000 for his first-place finish at the Madden Bowl 2017 tournament in February and was fined $3,000 after tweeting multiple offensive messages. After people went back through his timeline and found a handful of racist tweets, Dubby decided the best course of action would be to write more. The new set of tweets were apparently what landed him the fine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/10/ea-e3-racist-madden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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