User:Immanuelle/Ian Miles Cheong

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Ian Miles Cheong is a Malaysian far-right[9] political commentator who is known for writing about United States politics.[3] He previously worked as a game journalist[10][11][3] and has contributed to RT,[12] The Daily Caller[13] and Rebel News.[14]

He is a contributor to such websites as The Post Millennial, The Daily Caller,[15] and Gameranx.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]

Career[change | change source]

In the early 2010s, Cheong worked as a moderator for Reddit.[3] He was a moderator for many big subreddits like r/politics and r/AskReddit.[28][29] He was banned in March 2012 for spamming links to Gameranx, a gaming site for which he worked as news editor, as well as Uproxx and GlobalPost.[30] GlobalPost had hired Cheong as a "social media consultant".[28][29] Cheong had not disclosed his ties to the sites he was promoting.[3]

In 2014, old chat logs of Cheong praising Adolf Hitler were leaked. He stated that he had made those statements due to the influence of the "toxic game community.[31]

Cheong became known for his involvement in Gamergate, an online harassment campaign against women in the gaming industry.[3][better source needed] He was one of Gamergate's most prominent critics, with Gameranx publishing articles about the harassment and death threats Gamergate's targets were subjected to. Cheong later changed his stance, tweeting that it was "a little sad seeing some people just tweet incessantly about how much they hate GamerGate."[11]

In July 2016, Heat Street hired Cheong; he took over the website after its founders Louise Mensch and Noah Kotch departed.[11] In January 2017, Cheong announced he would be leaving Gameranx to focus on Heat Street.[32] Cheong wrote for The Daily Caller until May 2018.[33] As of May 2020, Cheong was working as managing editor for Human Events.[34]

Online misinformation sharing[change | change source]

In August 2018, Cheong falsely identified a Reddit user as the perpetrator of the Jacksonville Landing shooting.[35] After Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster was fatally shot in July 2020, Cheong falsely claimed on Twitter that Foster had fired first. Cheong's tweet was retweeted by then-U.S. President Donald Trump and cited by The Post Millennial; the tweet was later removed.[36]

In August 2020, Cheong shared a selectively-edited clip posted by Ruptly, a Russian state-owned video news agency, that appeared to show Black Lives Matter protesters burning Bibles and an American flag. His tweet was shared by Donald Trump Jr. and Ted Cruz, and was used by alt-right conspiracy theorists such as Jack Posobiec as evidence of the protesters' supposed depravity.[37]

In September 2020, Cheong falsely identified Darnell Hicks, a Black man, as the "number one suspect" in the shooting of two Los Angeles police officers.[38][4] The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department refuted Cheong's claim as "erroneous" and stated they had not identified any suspects at the time. Hicks told reporters that he had received harassment and death threats.[38]

After the 2022 Buffalo shooting, Cheong led an online disinformation campaign to suggest that the perpetrator held left-wing views.[12][5] The perpetrator held a far-right, self-described "fascist" ideology.[12] Following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Cheong posted a video that showed Israeli soldiers raiding a house while claiming, without proof, that the soldiers were Palestinian militants attempting to kill civilians.[8][39]

Views[change | change source]

In February 2018, Cheong published a positive review of Black Panther on Milo Yiannopoulos's website Dangerous. On Twitter, he called Erik Killmonger a "SJW black supremacist" and likened T'Challa to Donald Trump.[40][41] In July 2018, Cheong said in an appearance on the white supremacist podcast The Right Stuff that he supported both nationalism and socialism.[42]

In 2019, Cheong said that he did not believe in climate change.[3] In September 2023, Cheong came out in support of Russell Brand after he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women.[43][44]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ Devries, Melody; Bessant, Judith; Watts, Rob (29 July 2021). Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-78661-493-3. Stoking the outrage from regular users, far-right actors (e.g. Ian Miles Cheong) decried how easily 'the left' became 'hysterical' over what was clearly 'fun' or 'just a joke'.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Jason (3 December 2018). "Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2023. As of 2 October, Yiannopoulos owed sums of several thousand dollars to far right writers including Ian Miles Cheong...
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Thalen, Mikael (18 June 2020). "Does Ian Miles Cheong live in Malaysia?". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 17 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Thakker, Prem (1 November 2022). "Twitter's New Promise to Pay Content Creators Has One Big Catch". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023. Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right user who once used his massive platform to falsely identify an innocent Black man as the "number one suspect" in the shooting of two police officers, said he received over $16,000 from Twitter.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ecarma, Caleb (22 November 2022). "If Elon Musk Really Doesn't Want Twitter to Look "Right-Wing," He's Doing a Terrible Job". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023. Opening the door for a Trump return aside, Musk spent much of the past weekend interacting with numerous far-right bloggers, including Ian Miles Cheong, a Ron DeSantis supporter who falsely characterized the Buffalo mass shooter as a leftist.
  6. ↑ "'Stamp of approval': Twitter's Musk amplifies misinformation". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 19 April 2023. Archived from the original on 15 May 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023. Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right blogger, has received at least 60 replies from Musk -- topping all but a few other profiles, according to AFP's analysis.
  7. ↑ Valinsky, Jordan (2 June 2023). "How Chick-fil-A became a target for going 'woke'". CNN. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023. Shortly after, far-right personalities, including Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA and Ian Miles Cheong, joined in.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Dixit, Pranav (10 October 2023). "Social media platforms swamped with fake news on the Israel-Hamas war". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023. "Imagine if this was happening in our neighbourhood, to your family," posted Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right commentator...
  9. ↑ [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
  10. ↑ Carlson, Nicholas; Love, Dylan (23 October 2012). "RUMOR: Zynga Fires 100+ People During Apple Event To Avoid Nasty Press". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Nichols, Alex (10 July 2017). "The unceremonious demise of Heat Street". The Outline. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Hayden, Michael Edison (17 May 2022). "Disinfo Covers for White Supremacy After Buffalo Attack". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  13. ↑ Collins, Ben (13 August 2017). "Alt-Right Media Framed Wrong Person in Car Attack, Labeled Him 'Anti-Trump Druggie'". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  14. ↑ "Ian Miles Cheong at Rebel News". Rebel News. Archived from the original on 7 August 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  15. ↑ "Ian Miles Cheong". dailycaller.com. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  16. ↑ Thalen, Mikael (18 June 2020). "Does Ian Miles Cheong live in Malaysia?". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  17. ↑ Cheong, Ian Miles (3 November 2016). "This Mod Aims to Make Asssassin's Creed Look Like a 2016 Game". Gameranx. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  18. ↑ Thalen, Mikael (6 December 2023). "Ian Miles Cheong Community Noted to death for trying to suck up to Musk by claiming he hates 'Grand Theft Auto' too". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  19. ↑ Impelli, Matthew (20 September 2023). "Read all of Donald Trump Jr.'s bizarre tweets after hack". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  20. ↑ Harwell, Drew (31 March 2023). "How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online". The Washington Post.
  21. ↑ Palmer, Ewan (7 December 2021). "PragerU Presenter Karlyn Borysenko Says Jewish People Chose To Die In Holocaust". Newsweek.
  22. ↑ Winkie, Luke (1 December 2022). "The Redpilling of Elon Musk Isn't Funny". Slate. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  23. ↑ "Malaysia Man Criticized After Naming Black Man 'Number One Suspect' in Us Shooting". Coconuts Media. 17 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  24. ↑ Rosenberg, Matthew; Barnes, Julian E. (11 August 2020). "A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  25. ↑ Thalen, Mikael (17 June 2020). "Who is Ian Miles Cheong, and why does the internet care where he lives?". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  26. ↑ Morris, Kevin (3 April 2012). "Reddit moderator banned for selling his influence". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  27. ↑ Morris, Kevin (26 March 2012). "Why Reddit banned influential moderator Ian Miles Cheong". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Morris, Kevin (3 April 2012). "Reddit moderator banned for selling his influence". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Auerbach, David (9 October 2014). "Does Reddit Have a Transparency Problem?". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  30. ↑ Morris, Kevin (26 March 2012). "Why Reddit banned influential moderator Ian Miles Cheong". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  31. ↑ Auerbach, David (28 October 2014). "How to End Gamergate". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  32. ↑ Cheong, Ian Miles (14 January 2017). "Moving On". Gameranx. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  33. ↑ Gertz, Matt (5 September 2018). "The Daily Caller has published white supremacists, anti-Semites, and bigots. Here are the ones we know about". Media Matters for America. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  34. ↑ Brewster, Jack (27 May 2020). "Trump Campaign Uses Funeral Meme In Joe Biden Attack Ad". Forbes. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  35. ↑ Collins, Ben (28 August 2018). "Far-right media misidentifies Jacksonville shooter as Trump-bashing Reddit user". NBC News. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  36. ↑ Goforth, Claire (27 July 2020). "Slain Austin protester falsely accused of firing first by far-right trolls, Trump". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 12 September 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  37. ↑ Rosenberg, Matthew; Barnes, Julian E. (11 August 2020). "A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 "Malaysia man criticized after naming Black man 'number one suspect' in US shooting". Yahoo News. 17 September 2020. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  39. ↑ Borgohain, Chandan (11 October 2023). "Assamese media outlet peddles old videos as visuals of recent Israel-Hamas war". Logically. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  40. ↑ Levine, Jon (16 February 2018). "Black Panther Is So Good Even Milo Yiannopoulos' Website Loves It". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  41. ↑ Wittmer, Carrie (17 February 2018). "'Black Panther' is such an undeniable movie that even the critic for Milo Yiannopoulos' website is gushing about it". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  42. ↑ Holt, Jared (5 September 2018). "White Nationalist Ousted at Daily Caller – Again". Right Wing Watch. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  43. ↑ Hume, Tim (18 September 2023). "Conspiracy Theorists Are Rushing To Defend Russell Brand Over Sex Abuse Claims". Vice. Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  44. ↑ Maryland, Tori; Williams, Arron (29 September 2023). "Russell Brand and the myths that persist around sexual assault". Logically. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.

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