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Adrian Chen

Media

Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

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Adrian Chen New Yorker Jul 2018 30min Permalink

Tech World

The Agency

An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.

Adrian Chen New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 20min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Unfollow

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

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Adrian Chen New Yorker Nov 2015 40min Permalink

Politics World

When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power

The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.

Adrian Chen New Yorker Nov 2016 40min Permalink

Crime Science

Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?

Santería or Vodou are explored as possibilities.

Adrian Chen New York Mar 2015 20min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Troll Hunters

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

Adrian Chen MIT Technology Review Dec 2014 15min Permalink

Media

Is Livestreaming the Future of Media or the Future of Activism?

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

Adrian Chen New York Dec 2014 15min Permalink

Tech

The Truth About Anonymous’s Activism

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

Adrian Chen The Nation Nov 2014 Permalink

Business Tech World

The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed

The grim world of outsourced content moderation.

Adrian Chen Wired Oct 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

A profile of Perry Fellwock, a.k.a. Winslow Peck, who exposed the NSA in an 1972 article for Ramparts magazine.

Adrian Chen Gawker Nov 2013 35min Permalink

Crime Tech

"Weaponize the Media": An Anonymous Rapper's War on Steubenville

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2013 30min Permalink

Tech

The Internet's Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

Adrian Chen Gawker Nov 2012 25min Permalink

Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web

An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”

Adrian Chen Gawker Oct 2012 20min Permalink

Crime

The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr

John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed.

A decade-long Internet hoax unravels.

Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2012 Permalink