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8chan is back as 8kun, but its racist users found other places to go.
5 years, 2 months ago

8chan is back as 8kun, but its racist users found other places to go.

Slate  

8chan went offline in August after the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. There’s a newer generation of fringe-right internet users who are starting see the anonymous message boards like the /pol/ sections of 8chan and 4chan as outdated. If you were a dedicated and hateful-enough user of online forums to find your way to a place …

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8chan owner heading to US as lawmakers seek answers
5 years, 5 months ago

8chan owner heading to US as lawmakers seek answers

Associated Press  

BOSTON — The owner of the online message board 8chan says he’s headed shortly to the United States, where lawmakers want to question him on his site’s use as a megaphone by violent white supremacists. 8chan was effectively knocked offline Monday after two companies cut off vital technical services in response to word that the gunman who killed 22 people …

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Online providers knock 8chan offline after mass shooting
5 years, 5 months ago

Online providers knock 8chan offline after mass shooting

Associated Press  

BOSTON — The online message board 8chan was effectively knocked offline Monday after two companies cut off vital technical services following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, whose perpetrator was linked to the site. Late Sunday, the security company Cloudflare announced it was cutting off the message board, which has a history of use by violent extremists, for being …

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AP Explains: What is the online forum 8chan?
5 years, 5 months ago

AP Explains: What is the online forum 8chan?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — An anonymous online forum called 8chan has drawn attention in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio because violent U.S. extremists have used it to share tips and encourage one another. The site suffered sporadic outages Monday after its cybersecurity provider cut off support for what it called a “cesspool of hate.” WHAT IS 8CHAN? …

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Cloudflare terminates 8chan as customer on 'hate-filled' content after El Paso massacre
5 years, 5 months ago

Cloudflare terminates 8chan as customer on 'hate-filled' content after El Paso massacre

The Hindu  

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 …

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How 8chan Became A Breeding Ground For Violent Extremism
5 years, 5 months ago

How 8chan Became A Breeding Ground For Violent Extremism

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On Saturday morning, a gunman opened fire on shoppers in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart. “ is a completely anonymous place, and that’s exactly why it’s used to stir hatred, and to tell people to commit mass murder,” noted Ben Collins, an NBC extremism reporter covering the El Paso tragedy. In an interview a couple of years …

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A gunman slaughtered 11 Jewish worshippers. Then people hunted for hate online
5 years, 7 months ago

A gunman slaughtered 11 Jewish worshippers. Then people hunted for hate online

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This article addresses hateful language that, while upsetting to many, is necessary to report what we found. But Googling “I hate Jews” takes you to a variety of pages ranging from a Wikipedia entry about self-hating Jews to an article about a Vice co-founder, who left the company more than a decade ago, launching into a rant about …

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FBI officials learned of a threatening 8chan post 5 minutes before synagogue attack
5 years, 8 months ago

FBI officials learned of a threatening 8chan post 5 minutes before synagogue attack

CNN  

CNN — Tipsters alerted the FBI to a threatening post on the anonymous message board 8chan minutes before a gunman opened fire at a California synagogue, an FBI official told CNN Monday. The FBI official said several tips came in to its tip website and phone line approximately five minutes before John T. Earnest allegedly began shooting. A tipster named …

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After the New Zealand shooting, ISPs were wrong to block 8chan. Here’s why.
5 years, 9 months ago

After the New Zealand shooting, ISPs were wrong to block 8chan. Here’s why.

Slate  

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 …

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Man who shot at Muslims at New Zealand mosque told people to subscribe to Pewdiepie in livestream
5 years, 9 months ago

Man who shot at Muslims at New Zealand mosque told people to subscribe to Pewdiepie in livestream

India Today  

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 …

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