Adrian Chen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Adrian Chen
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1984(1984-11-23)
Age	40
Birthplace	United States
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Adrian Chen Biography

Adrian Chen is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 23, 1984 in United States, United States. Writer who primarily works as a tech journalist for noteworthy publications and websites including The New Yorker and Gawker. He famously outed Reddit user Violentacrez a.k.a. Michael Brutsch who moderated controversial subreddit r/Jailbait that featured photos of underage girls taken in a sexual capacity and shared without their consent.

He directed a short film called The Moderators about internet moderators that was featured on Last Week Tonight hosted by John Oliver.

In June 2011, Chen wrote an exposé of Silk Road, a Darknet market which facilitated online drug purchases. Following publication of the article, Chen was interviewed about Silk Road on NPR’s All Things Considered. 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.

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”, 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. 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”. 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”. For his article revealing Brutsch, Chen received a Mirror Award for Best Profile in the category of Traditional/Legacy or Digital Media.

He has two sisters and his father Harry is an ER physician who also served as the Vermont Health Commissioner. His mother’s name is Anne.

Adrian Chen Net Worth

Adrian Chen is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adrian Chen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started working for Gawker in 2009 after finishing an internship with Slate.

He also wrote an exposé of Silk Road, a dark web market that faciliated the illegal sale of drugs and numerous other blackmarket items. The article prompted Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin to call for the website to be shut down.

Adrian Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳力宇 ; simplified Chinese: 陈力宇 ; pinyin: Chén Lìyǔ ; 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, 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. He has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, Wired, and other publications.

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Adrian Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Adrian Chen celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.