Double agent

 

"Professor Jiang" is a somewhat peculiar Internet personality who rose to prominence recently. His message seems to be a confused "lowest common denominator" of every on-line conspiracy / alternative theory, which may explain his sudden success.

Unless it´s algorithmic manipulation...

Some conspiracy theorists (!) suspect that Jiang is an asset of the Chinese regime, but Jay Dyer (also a conspiracist) believe it´s more likely that the fake professor is a *Western* influence agent. Indeed, he was arrested by the Chinese authorities at one point and extradited from the country! For unclear reasons, he was later allowed back, which obviously gave rise to rumors that he must be secretely working for the CCP or be a double agent. 

I don´t claim to know who Jiang is, except that he sounds frankly uninteresting even for a supposed fringey!

Wtf, I love Flint Dibble now

 

Who the heck is Professor Jiang? Everybody is talking about him right now. Jiang seems to be a Chinese conspiracy theorist. Probably some kind of Alt Right stuff. Apparently, he predicted Trump´s attack on Iran with the help of "game theory". Or was it Hari Seldon´s psycho-history? He actually mentions psycho-history (a concept from Asimov´s science fiction novels) in his YouTube channel presentation. Jiang has also predicted that the United States will eventually lose the war in question. 

Debunker Flint Dibble has found some weird videos featuring Jiang´s rather colorful adjacent opinions. For instance that the famous Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca wasn´t a real person, that Freemasons and Rosicrucians rule the world, that there is no evidence for the Holocaust, or that Jiang himself can somehow communicate with the Divine. He also seems to be doing cold reading on his students?! Elsewhere on-line, I found a video in which the Chinese gadfly seems to be denying the Moon landing. 

Flint claims that Jiang isn´t a real professor, but a middle school teacher in Beijing (note, however, that his YT channel is registered in Canada) with a bachelor´s degree in English literature from Yale. Jiang has millions of subscribers on YouTube, so it´s possible that he isn´t going away any time soon...