https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan
8kun, previously called 8chan, Infinitechan or Infinitychan (stylized as ∞chan), is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
Aug 5, 2019 — In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan. Based ...
https://www.wired.com/story/the-weird-dark-history-8chan/
Aug 6, 2019 — Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site's links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/8chan
The 'gamification' of domestic terrorism online. Hate-filled online posts or “manifestos” have often been purposely left behind by shooters for the public ...
https://crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/after-8chan/
Dec 4, 2020 — A summary of the rise and fall of 8chan, its role within the online far-right ecosystem, and the extent to which its successor, 8kun, has taken its place.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/19/far-right-online-forum-8chan-loses-internet
Oct 19, 2020 — Site was back online Monday morning with a Russian company enlisted to protect it from DDoS attacks.
https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/correspondence/thompson-rogers-demand-8chan-owner-appear-and-answer-questions-on-sites-extremist-content
Aug 6, 2019 — Jim Watkins, the owner of the website 8chan, to request that he appear before the Committee to answer questions on what is being done to address the ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06946
by P Voué · 2020 · Cited by 12 — We have collected over 30M messages from the publicly available /pol/ message boards on 4chan and 8chan, and compiled them into a model of tox
https://www.britannica.com/topic/4chan
Oct 3, 2025 — 4chan and 8chan (8kun), imageboard websites that are characterized primarily by the anonymity of their users and their loosely moderated, sometimes graphic or ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49233767
Aug 5, 2019 — An extreme message board is understood to have served as a platform for the violent ramblings of the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/8chan/
8chan/8kun — a controversial online image board linked to several mass shootings — and QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory ...
https://www.facebook.com/frontline/videos/8chan-let-users-police-themselves-the-sites-founder-fredrick-brennan-told-frontl/3992116457709979/
8chan let users “police” themselves, the site's founder, Fredrick Brennan, told FRONTLINE and ProPublica in the March 2025 documentary “The Rise and Fall of ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html
Aug 4, 2019 — Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived.
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/hatechan-hate-and-violence-filled-legacy-8chan
Aug 7, 2019 — A mass shooting by a white supremacist at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on August 3, 2019, shocked Americans across the nation. The horrific ...
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Communication/Journalism_and_Mass_Communication/Clickbait_Bias_and_Propaganda_in_Information_Networks_(Fister_et_al.)/04%3A_Examining_Platforms/4.05%3A_8chan
Feb 19, 2021 — 8chan is an imageboard designed to allow for the unabridged free speech of its anonymous users. It has a small user base when compared to social media giants ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Vt5Jw5Kw
Just two months of being taken down for criminal and dangerous activity, 8chan — now 8kun — is back and reportedly against users engaging in ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/business/el-paso-shooting-8chan-biz
Aug 5, 2019 — 8chan is an online messaging board that has been used by anonymous accounts to share extremist messages and cheer on mass shooters. It is rife ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8chan-struggles-to-stay-online-after-links-to-mass-shootings/
Aug 6, 2019 — 8chan, an online forum linked to a range of disturbing content including several white supremacist mass shooters' manifestoes, briefly resurfaced Tuesday ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef33iBZ7BY
8chan soon morphed into a forum for white nationalists neo-nazis and mass shooters burned out. Brennan eventually quit the site in 2016.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1hwp4ak/8kun_previously_called_8chan_is_an_imageboard/
8kun, previously called 8chan, is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards. The site has been linked to white supremacism, ...