Adrian Chen
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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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. → Read More
What Was Missing from Mark Zuckerberg’s First Day of Congressional Testimony
Senators demanded transparency, accountability, and support for new legislation from the Facebook C.E.O., but few seemed to grasp the existential questions at hand. → Read More
Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube Shooting, and the Anxiety of Demonetization
We have become familiar with the dangers of an unfettered Internet, but Tuesday’s tragedy reminds us that the quest to control it is scarcely less fraught. → Read More
How to Fix Facebook
Four New Yorker writers discuss the Cambridge Analytica revelations; the response from Facebook’s C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg; and the future of “social responsibility” in Silicon Valley. → Read More
Cambridge Analytica and Our Lives Inside the Surveillance Machine
You don’t need to believe the hype about “psychographic profiling” to worry that data-obsessed political marketing is undermining democracy. → Read More
A So-Called Expert’s Uneasy Dive Into the Trump-Russia Frenzy
Adrian Chen discusses the role of “experts” in the Trump-Russia story, in particular the frenzy over last week’s federal indictment targeting the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency. Is it possible to be a skeptic without playing into the President’s hands? → Read More
An Indicted Russian Picks Up the Phone, and Mocks the Idea That Russia Meddled
In conversation, Mikhail Burchik seemed sanguine about accusations that he helped oversee a massive operation to spread pro-Trump propaganda under false identities on social media. → Read More
What Mueller’s Indictment Reveals About Russia’s Internet Research Agency
Adrian Chen on Robert Mueller’s indictment of Russians involved in interfering with the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and what the indictment reveals about the shadowy, Kremlin-connected Internet Research Agency. → Read More
Adrian Chen
Adrian Chen joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016. Previously, he was a staff writer at Gawker, from 2009 to 2013. His stories on Internet culture and technology have appeared in the Times Magazine, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Nation and New York magazine. He is a founder of IRL Club, a live event series about the Internet, and a former contributor to the Onion News Network, the… → Read More
The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded Gaze”
Adrian Chen writes about the Google Arts & Culture app’s facial-recognition algorithm and how it relates to the ideas of John Berger and Joy Buolamwini. → Read More
Using Comedy to Strengthen Nigeria’s Democracy
A news-satire series modelled on “The Daily Show” aims to empower viewers. Will the joke get lost in translation? → Read More
The Fake-News Fallacy
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet. → Read More
What Trump Sees in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
It is impossible not to read a dark subtext in the call between Trump and the Philippine strongman. → Read More
What Trump Sees in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
It is impossible not to read a dark subtext in the call between Trump and the Philippine strongman. → Read More
“The Moderators” Who Keep the Awfulness from Your Screen
For many young Filipinos, processing the world’s virtual waste was an appealing job that facilitated entry to a well-paying industry. But the work took its toll. → Read More
The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
Adrian Chen on content moderation, which keeps illegal and exploitative material off online networks through tedious and potentially dangerous human labor. → Read More
The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
Adrian Chen on content moderation, which keeps illegal and exploitative material off online networks through tedious and potentially dangerous human labor. → Read More
Outsourcing News, Opinion, and Analysis
Find the collection of news on Outsourcing, in-depth articles, opinion and analysis from The New Yorker. → Read More
Brad Troemel, the Troll of Internet Art
Brad Troemel’s work is a jab at the rigid rules of the art world and an experiment in what art might look like if those rules didn’t exist. → Read More
Brad Troemel, the Troll of Internet Art
Brad Troemel’s work is a jab at the rigid rules of the art world and an experiment in what art might look like if those rules didn’t exist. → Read More