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In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of [[Violentacrez]] (a moderator of several [[Reddit]] [[Jailbait]] communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/15/reddit_troll_violentacrez_outed_by_gawker_when_will_law_enforcement_catch.html|title=Gawker Outed Reddit's Most Notorious Troll. Why Isn't Law Enforcement Doing the Same?|last=Hess|first=Amanda|date=15 October 2012|publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref> This led to all links to Gawker being temporarily banned from Reddit.<ref name="Oremus" /> In September 2012, Chen acquiesced to demands from [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]] and posted images of himself dressed in a [[Ballet tutu|tutu]] with a shoe perched on his head. The images had been demanded in exchange for interviews regarding an alleged leak of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] iPhone and iPad user data from an FBI laptop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/5940273 |title=Anonymous Demands to See Gawker Writer in Ballet Tutu For More Information on Massive FBI Hack |last=Chen |first=Adrian |date=4 September 2012 |publisher=[[Gawker Media]] |accessdate=16 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008073720/http://gawker.com/5940273 |archivedate=8 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://slacktory.com/2012/09/adrian-chen-will-play-your-internet-game-you-rogue/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130202151231/http://slacktory.com/2012/09/adrian-chen-will-play-your-internet-game-you-rogue/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2013 |title=Adrian Chen Will Play Your Internet Game, You Rogue |last=Douglas |first=Nick |date=5 September 2012 |publisher=Slacktory |accessdate=16 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/09/04/hackers_release_apple_data/|title=Hackers release Apple data|last=Lennard|first=Natasha|date=4 September 2012|work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57506130-93/gawker-writer-dons-pink-tutu-in-response-to-anonymous-demand/|title=Gawker writer dons pink tutu in response to Anonymous demand|last=Cooper|first=Charles|date=4 September 2012|publisher=[[CNet]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref> |
In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of [[Violentacrez]] (a moderator of several [[Reddit]] [[Jailbait]] communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/15/reddit_troll_violentacrez_outed_by_gawker_when_will_law_enforcement_catch.html|title=Gawker Outed Reddit's Most Notorious Troll. Why Isn't Law Enforcement Doing the Same?|last=Hess|first=Amanda|date=15 October 2012|publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref> This led to all links to Gawker being temporarily banned from Reddit.<ref name="Oremus" /> In September 2012, Chen acquiesced to demands from [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]] and posted images of himself dressed in a [[Ballet tutu|tutu]] with a shoe perched on his head. The images had been demanded in exchange for interviews regarding an alleged leak of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] iPhone and iPad user data from an FBI laptop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/5940273 |title=Anonymous Demands to See Gawker Writer in Ballet Tutu For More Information on Massive FBI Hack |last=Chen |first=Adrian |date=4 September 2012 |publisher=[[Gawker Media]] |accessdate=16 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008073720/http://gawker.com/5940273 |archivedate=8 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://slacktory.com/2012/09/adrian-chen-will-play-your-internet-game-you-rogue/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130202151231/http://slacktory.com/2012/09/adrian-chen-will-play-your-internet-game-you-rogue/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2013 |title=Adrian Chen Will Play Your Internet Game, You Rogue |last=Douglas |first=Nick |date=5 September 2012 |publisher=Slacktory |accessdate=16 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/09/04/hackers_release_apple_data/|title=Hackers release Apple data|last=Lennard|first=Natasha|date=4 September 2012|work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57506130-93/gawker-writer-dons-pink-tutu-in-response-to-anonymous-demand/|title=Gawker writer dons pink tutu in response to Anonymous demand|last=Cooper|first=Charles|date=4 September 2012|publisher=[[CNet]]|accessdate=16 October 2012}}</ref> |
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In 2016, he became a staff writer for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/adrian-chen|title=Adrian Chen|work=The New Yorker|accessdate=June 3, 2016}}</ref> He left the magazine in July 2018.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=AdrianChen|author=Adrian Chen|number=1013825675302789121|date=2 July 2018|title=This is also my last piece as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Sad to leave so many brilliant colleagues, but I'm very excited for my next project: I'm working on a book about gamers, based partly on this article, to be published at some point before End Times by Random House.}}</ref> |
In 2016, he became a staff writer for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/adrian-chen|title=Adrian Chen|work=The New Yorker|accessdate=June 3, 2016}}</ref> He left the magazine in July 2018.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=AdrianChen|author=Adrian Chen|number=1013825675302789121|date=2 July 2018|title=This is also my last piece as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Sad to leave so many brilliant colleagues, but I'm very excited for my next project: I'm working on a book about gamers, based partly on this article, to be published at some point before End Times by Random House.}}</ref> |
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In June 2011, Chen wrote an exposé of [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]], a [[Darknet market]] which facilitated online drug purchases.<ref name="GawkerSilkRoad1">{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable |title=The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable |author=Adrian Chen |accessdate=15 June 2011 |date=1 June 2011 |work=[[Gawker]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613040631/http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable |archivedate=13 June 2011 }}</ref> Following publication of the article, Chen was interviewed about Silk Road on [[NPR]]'s ''[[All Things Considered]]''.<ref name=npr1>{{cite news|title=Silk Road: Not Your Father's Amazon.com|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137138008/silk-road-not-your-fathers-amazon-com|accessdate=5 November 2011|newspaper=[[All Things Considered]]|date=12 June 2011|author=NPR Staff|format=Broadcast radio segment|agency=[[NPR]]|quote=The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon.com of illegal drugs.}}</ref> As a result of Chen's investigation, United States Senators [[Charles Schumer]] and [[Joe Manchin]] publicly called on [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]] to shut the site down.<ref name=openletter>{{cite web|title=Manchin Urges Federal Law Enforcement to Shut Down Online Black Market for Illegal Drugs|url=http://manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2011/6/manchin-urges-federal-law-enforcement-to-shut-down-online-black-market-for-illegal-drugs|work=Press Releases - Newsroom - Joe Manchin, United States Senator, West Virginia|accessdate=5 November 2011|author= |
In June 2011, Chen wrote an exposé of [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]], a [[Darknet market]] which facilitated online drug purchases.<ref name="GawkerSilkRoad1">{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable |title=The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable |author=Adrian Chen |accessdate=15 June 2011 |date=1 June 2011 |work=[[Gawker]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613040631/http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable |archivedate=13 June 2011 }}</ref> Following publication of the article, Chen was interviewed about Silk Road on [[NPR]]'s ''[[All Things Considered]]''.<ref name=npr1>{{cite news|title=Silk Road: Not Your Father's Amazon.com|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137138008/silk-road-not-your-fathers-amazon-com|accessdate=5 November 2011|newspaper=[[All Things Considered]]|date=12 June 2011|author=NPR Staff|format=Broadcast radio segment|agency=[[NPR]]|quote=The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon.com of illegal drugs.}}</ref> As a result of Chen's investigation, United States Senators [[Charles Schumer]] and [[Joe Manchin]] publicly called on [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]] to shut the site down.<ref name=openletter>{{cite web|title=Manchin Urges Federal Law Enforcement to Shut Down Online Black Market for Illegal Drugs|url=http://manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2011/6/manchin-urges-federal-law-enforcement-to-shut-down-online-black-market-for-illegal-drugs|work=Press Releases - Newsroom - Joe Manchin, United States Senator, West Virginia|accessdate=5 November 2011|author=Charles E. Schumer|author-link=Charles E. Schumer|author2=Joe Manchin|author2-link=Joe Manchin|format=Press release|date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508070058/http://manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2011/6/manchin-urges-federal-law-enforcement-to-shut-down-online-black-market-for-illegal-drugs|archive-date=2012-05-08|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="SecNarc">{{cite news |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/123187958.html |title=Schumer Pushes to Shut Down Online Drug Marketplace|accessdate=15 June 2011 |date=5 June 2011 |agency=Associated Press|publisher=[[NBC New York]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/230084/u_s_senators_want_to_shut_down_bitcoins.html|title=U.S. Senators Want to Shut Down Bitcoins, Currency of Internet Drug Trade|last=Slattery|first=Brennon|date=10 June 2011|publisher=[[PC World]]|accessdate=28 November 2012}}</ref> |
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Adrian Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳力宇; simplified Chinese: 陈力宇; pinyin: Chén Lìyǔ;[1] born November 23, 1984) is an American blogger, and former staff writer at The New Yorker. Chen joined Gawker in November 2009 as a night shift editor, graduating from an internship position at Slate,[2] and has written extensively on Internet culture, especially virtual communities such as 4chan and Reddit. Chen is the creator of The Pamphlette, a "humor publication" for Reed College students on a piece of letter-size paper.[3] He has written for The New York Times,[4] New York magazine,[5] Wired,[6] and other publications.
In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of Violentacrez (a moderator of several Reddit Jailbait communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.[7] This led to all links to Gawker being temporarily banned from Reddit.[8] In September 2012, Chen acquiesced to demands from Anonymous and posted images of himself dressed in a tutu with a shoe perched on his head. The images had been demanded in exchange for interviews regarding an alleged leak of Apple iPhone and iPad user data from an FBI laptop.[9][10][11][12]
In 2016, he became a staff writer for The New Yorker.[13] He left the magazine in July 2018.[14]
Chen was born to Harry Chen and Anne Lezak.[15] His father Harry is ethnic Chinese[16] and religiously Christian and his mother Anne is Jewish.[17] He has two sisters Alyssa and Laurel.[15] His father Dr. Harry L. Chen, M.D. is an emergency medicine physician[18][19][20] and former Vermont Health Commissioner.[21][22] His maternal grandfather was Sidney I. Lezak,[23] former U.S. Attorney for Oregon for more than 20 years.[24][25]
In June 2011, Chen wrote an exposé of Silk Road, a Darknet market which facilitated online drug purchases.[26] Following publication of the article, Chen was interviewed about Silk Road on NPR's All Things Considered.[27] As a result of Chen's investigation, United States Senators Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin publicly called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to shut the site down.[28][29][30]
In February 2012, Chen interviewed a freelancer from oDesk, an outsourcing firm hired to enforce Facebook's content guidelines.[31] The article included the guidelines provided by oDesk.[31][32][33][34]
In October 2012, Chen uncovered the background of Michael Brutsch, a moderator who oversaw several controversial Reddit forums such as r/creepshots and r/jailbait, under the username 'Violentacrez'. He arranged a phone interview with Brutsch during which Brutsch mentioned he had a disabled wife and pleaded for him to keep his identity secret. Though Chen claimed this "did shake [him] a bit",[35] he published an article revealing his name, location, and workplace on Gawker. The next day, Brutsch was fired from his job. This release of personally identifiable information prompted several subreddits to ban all Gawker link submissions from their site.[8][36] When Chen's article was published it became banned site-wide, which Reddit general manager Erik Martin said was a mistake. "The sitewide ban of the recent Adrien Chen (sic) article was a mistake on our part and was fixed this morning. Mods are still free to do what they want in their subreddits".[37] Chen claims that apart from Reddit, response to his story had been "overwhelmingly positive", telling The Guardian, "I thought there would be more of a backlash about the story, but people really are willing to accept that anonymity is not a given on the internet and if people use pseudonyms to publish sexualised images of women without their consent, and of underage girls, then there's not really a legitimate claim to privacy".[38] For his article revealing Brutsch, Chen received a Mirror Award for Best Profile in the category of Traditional/Legacy or Digital Media.[39]
The public outpouring of hostility towards Brutsch following the exposé prompted commentators such as Danah BoydatWired and Michelle Star of CNET to question the morality of outing as a way to enforce societal standards online.[40][41] Several commentators have expressed concern that the public shaming of Brutsch may serve as an example to others, legitimizing online vigilantism and exposing individuals such as Brutsch to mass retribution.[40][41] Mez Breeze has suggested in The Next Web that, in outing Brutsch, Chen engaged in a type of trolling, making Brutsch "the victim of unwanted bullying and substantial negative attention" as a result of the exposé.[42]
PropOrNot is a group that seeks to expose what it calls Russian propaganda and published a list of websites they called『bona-fide ‘useful idiots’』of the Russian government based on methodology they called "a combination of manual and automated analysis, including analysis of content, timing, technical indicators, and other reporting".[43] Chen was critical of The Washington Post's decision to put the story on its front page. He wrote in an article titled "The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda": "The story topped the Post’s most-read list, and was shared widely by prominent journalists and politicians on Twitter. ... But a close look at the report showed that it was a mess."[44] Looking more carefully into their methodology, Chen argued that PropOrNot's criteria for establishing propaganda were so broad that they could have included "not only Russian state-controlled media organizations, such as Russia Today, but nearly every news outlet in the world, including the Post itself" on their list.[44]
The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon.com of illegal drugs.
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