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 …
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 …
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 …
