Editor’s Note: Karen Kornbluh is senior fellow and director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at The German Marshall Fund, a non-partisan think tank and grant-making institution dedicated to deepening transatlantic ties. While the result is an improvement, for now, Cloudflare should have terminated the site’s account back in March after the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, despite feeling …
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 …
After a shooter livestreamed himself killing 50 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand earlier this month, one of the places where footage of his broadcast lived on was 8chan—the same shadowy message board where he posted a manifesto and chillingly called his actions “a real life effort post.” While mainstream platforms like Facebook and YouTube mobilized to take down uploads of …
