Michael Cernovich was born on November 17,1977 and is an American right-wing social media personality, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist.
47 Facts About Mike Cernovich
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Mike Cernovich describes himself as part of the new right and some have described him as part of the alt-lite.
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Mike Cernovich became a blogger in the 2000s, focusing on anti-feminist themes.
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Mike Cernovich created a website, Danger and Play, in 2011; it was first known for his postings about men's rights and mindset techniques.
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In 2014, Mike Cernovich became a prominent figure in the Gamergate harassment campaign against several women in the video game industry, and through this built a following among the alt-right.
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Mike Cernovich was an early supporter of Republican candidate Donald Trump, and promoted conspiracy theories about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Mike Cernovich is known for his promotion of fake news, conspiracy theories, and smear campaigns.
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Mike Cernovich helped spread the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely claimed that John Podesta and other high-ranking Democratic Party officials were involved in a child-sex ring.
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Mike Cernovich unearthed old tweets by Sam Seder and James Gunn joking about pedophilia, and initially succeeded in pressuring to get them fired, but both were reinstated after public outcry.
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Mike Cernovich was born on November 17,1977, in the farming town of Kewanee, Illinois.
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Mike Cernovich's family was poor, and his parents were both devout Christians.
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Mike Cernovich graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2001.
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Mike Cernovich graduated with a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2004.
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In 2015, Mike Cernovich self-published Gorilla Mindset: How to Control Your Thoughts and Emotions, Improve Your Health and Fitness, Make More Money and Live Life on Your Terms, which became a bestseller in the motivational self-help category on Amazon.
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In 2016, Mike Cernovich was an associate producer for Cassie Jaye's documentary The Red Pill, which discusses the men's rights movement, and issues like male suicide, child custody, and educational inequality.
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In 2018, Mike Cernovich produced a documentary called Hoaxed: Everything They Told You Is a Lie, with associate producers Scooter Downey and Jon Du Toit.
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Mike Cernovich's writings turned political after Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 US presidential election.
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Mike Cernovich became notable for his trolling; his maxims were "conflict is attention", and "attention is influence".
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Mike Cernovich identified himself as alt-right, and joined forces with provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Mike Cernovich adopted the label "new right", and has described himself as an economic nationalist.
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Mike Cernovich was one of the organizers of the January 2017 DeploraBall inaugural ball to celebrate Trump's victory; the name was a reference to Hillary Clinton's earlier "basket of deplorables" comment.
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Mike Cernovich banned fellow organizer Baked Alaska after the latter made an antisemitic tweet, and banned Spencer after he discovered the latter had bought a ticket.
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In 2015 and 2016, Mike Cernovich repeatedly made false claims that white South Africans were being genocided, which were debunked by Genocide Watch.
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In 2018, Mike Cernovich became "increasingly critical" of Trump, and less politically active.
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Mike Cernovich voiced his support for Ron DeSantis for the 2024 election.
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Mike Cernovich, who had used the hashtag 60 times, later deleted the tweets, and downplayed his involvement in propagating the theory.
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Mike Cernovich has supported the unevidenced theory that there were multiple shooters at the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, which he claims the government is covering up.
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In 2016, Mike Cernovich worked with Chuck Johnson and Wikileaks to offer a bounty for information supporting the conspiracy theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich had been behind a leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
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New York Magazine's Jesse Singal deemed it gonzo journalism, while CNN's Tom Kludt said Mike Cernovich "gained prominence in the Trump-era for legitimate national security related scoops".
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Mike Cernovich claimed that his sources were sympathetic employees of mainstream media outlets, whose outlets were "sitting on this story".
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On May 8,2017, Mike Cernovich reported that McMaster had called White House director of strategic communications Hope Hicks a "high schooler".
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Mike Cernovich was interviewed on Foreign Policy's podcast in relation to his anti-McMaster campaign, and discussed the tension between journalism and activism.
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Mike Cernovich then gave the documents to BuzzFeed, saying he did not publish them on his own because he thought Democrats would attempt to discredit him.
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Singal described conservatives as believing "[people like Mike Cernovich] are on the right side, and they're set to overtake those corrupt dinosaurs who have controlled the flow of information for far too long".
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In January 2017, Mike Cernovich filed a motion to unseal evidence and depositions from Giuffre's lawsuit.
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Mike Cernovich told Politico he was "astonished" by the amount of redactions the judge allowed, with some documents "largely or entirely redacted".
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In February 2020, Mike Cernovich filed a third-party motion in Roger Stone's criminal case, calling for the release of the jury foreperson's questionnaire answers.
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Mike Cernovich became influential on social media, initially as part of the manosphere movement.
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Mike Cernovich uses trolling tactics, which he says he uses to build his brand rather than for his own amusement.
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In December 2017, Mike Cernovich hosted an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, regarded as a failure by several media outlets.
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In 2014, Mike Cernovich became a prominent figure of Gamergate, which targeted feminists as part of a nascent culture war in the aftermath of the MeToo movement.
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Mike Cernovich hired private investigators to hound Zoe Quinn, a central target of Gamergate, and worked with Eron Gjoni, Quinn's former boyfriend who had written the disparaging blog post about Quinn which incited the harassment campaign.
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In December 2017, Mike Cernovich published a Medium post and contacted several journalists and news outlets about a joke tweet that comedian and MSNBC contributor Sam Seder had written in 2009.
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Over 12,000 people signed a petition protesting Seder's termination, arguing that Mike Cernovich had acted in malice and was deliberately mischaracterizing the tweet.
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Mike Cernovich married his first wife when he was a law student in 2003.
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Mike Cernovich later said the marriage was "ruined by feminist indoctrination".
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Mike Cernovich filed for divorce in 2011, and Cernovich received what he has described as a "seven-figure sum" in the settlement.