8chan radicals are accused of committing three mass shootings this year alone.
On Saturday morning, a gunman opened fire on shoppers in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart. Twenty-two people were killed, including a mother who was gunned down while cradling her infant son, shielding him from harm. Dozens more were injured, with many still fighting for their lives. It was one of the country’s deadliest mass shootings and the deadliest massacre of Latinos in modern American history.
About a month after Christchurch, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a white teenage boy armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle stormed a synagogue in Poway, California. He killed one woman and injured three others, including a rabbi. Just before the shooting, he posted an anti-Semitic manifesto on 8chan along with a message: “I’ve only been lurking for a year and a half, yet, what I’ve learned here is priceless.
Story continues“[8chan] 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. “There is a body count associated with this website now.” In 2015, Brennan relinquished the site to Jim Watkins, a U.S. Army veteran in his mid-50s who is based in the Philippines. Watkins started a successful pornography site in the 1990s during his time in the Army, giving him the funds to bankroll websites through his company N.T. Technology. Although Watkins claimed in a 2017 interview with BuzzFeed that he doesn’t share the extremist views on 8chan, he gleefully hosts them.
Although most social media giants have struggled to contain the spread of violent and hateful content on their sites, Facebook and others have cracked down on fake and anonymous accounts, making it harder for users to detach themselves from their posts.
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