“What’s actually really dangerous about this forum is not just that all of these hateful ideologies are present, but that they are all interwoven together and they’re part of the same toxic community at once,” Hankes told JTA. Keegan Hankes, a research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, calls the site “one of the most violent and racist online spaces that we track.” Child pornography has been shared frequently on the site. The site has a ban on illegal content but it is not closely enforced. It is rife with racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism posted by users. Unlike other online forums, such as Reddit, 8chan lacks moderation measures meant to curb hateful content. The programmer, Fredrick Brennan, was upset that 4chan banned discussions of Gamergate, a campaign to harass several women in the video gaming industry. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke to experts on extremism to learn more about 8chan, how it differs from similar forums and why it became a venue of choice for hate.Ĩchan is an online messaging forum created in 2014 by a computer programmer to protest censorship on another messaging board called 4chan. Suspects in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a synagogue in Poway, California, also are believed to have posted hateful manifestos on the site. This isn’t the first time 8chan has been tied to a mass shooter this year. It was uploaded fewer than 20 minutes before the shooting, according to CNN.
The text contains racist rhetoric, blaming immigrants and Latinos for taking away jobs from Americans. Law enforcement officials are investigating a document posted there that is believed to be authored by the suspect, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.
( JTA) - Not long after news that a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, left at least 22 people dead, reports started swirling that the suspect had posted a manifesto on 8chan, an online forum.
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