U.S. cyber security firm Cloudflare on Monday said it would terminate online message board 8chan as a customer after a gunman used the messaging forum prior to killing 20 people at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas on Saturday. The gunman is believed to have posted a four-page statement on 8chan, and called the Walmart attack “a response to …
'Uniquely Lawless': Security Firm Drops 8chan Website Following El Paso Shooting Enlarge this image toggle caption Wayback Machine/Screenshot by NPR Wayback Machine/Screenshot by NPR A Web security company is dropping its protections for 8chan, a controversial online message board where people have posted hateful screeds before carrying out violent and deadly attacks. In a statement posted early Monday morning, Web …
CNN — Saturday’s shooting in El Paso is at least the third atrocity this year where a suspect is believed to have posted to 8chan in advance of an attack. In the four-page document on 8chan, the author wrote: “I’m probably going to die today.” A CNN analysis found it was posted less than 20 minutes before police received the …
People at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, were targeted by multiple gunmen in an apparent hate crime on Friday. The result has been that chants of "subscribe to Pewdiepie " have become a meme, particularly among people active in toxic online communities. In the last one year we have seen hackers defacing websites with "subscribe to Pewdiepie" message and …
