This is a decent summary . While it is probably exaggerating to say that it actively got anyone killed, I was told there was also an attempt to use the claims in the text to suggest that this was all a conspiracy theory, which comes dangerously close to enabling what would probably have happened anyway.

The latest edition of VTM was written and overseen by former members of the notoriously stupidly edgy Larper community. As a result in the core rulebook they claimed that the real life pogrom against LGBT folk in Chechnya was in fact, a cover up over it being about vampires.

Paradox (who now owns the company that prints VTM) instantly went scorched earth and pulled all the copies of the new rule set and fired everyone