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 …
The El Paso shooter’s manifesto is at least the third act of extremist violence directly linked to 8chan. The owner of 8chan, an online message board at the centre of controversy following the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, has been called to testify before govt officials in the US. As per the summons from the US Congress, the El …
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 …
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 …