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'''8kun''', previously called '''8chan''', '''Infinitechan''' or '''Infinitychan''' (stylized as '''∞chan'''), is<!--Please do not change this to past tense without discussion--> an [[imageboard]] website composed of user-created [[message board]]s. An owner moderates each board, with minimal interaction from site administration.<ref name="faq">{{cite web |last=Brennan |first=Fredrick |url=https://null.net/faq.html |title=FAQ |publisher=Infinitechan |website=null.net |access-date=November 23, 2014}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The site has been linked to [[white supremacism]], [[neo-Nazism]], the [[alt-right]], [[racism]] and [[antisemitism]], [[hate crime]]s, and multiple [[mass shooting]]s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio-8chan-far-right-website |title=8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes |last=Wong |first=Julia Carrie |author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |date=2019-08-04 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2019-08-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821023116/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio-8chan-far-right-website |archive-date=August 21, 2019 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="nytimes 20190804">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html |title=8chan Is a Megaphone for Gunmen. 'Shut the Site Down,' Says Its Creator. |last=Roose |first=Kevin |date=2019-08-04 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2019-08-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190805070853/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html |archive-date=August 5, 2019 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |author-link=Kevin Roose |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/business/el-paso-shooting-8chan-biz/index.html |title=El Paso shooting is at least the third atrocity linked to 8chan this year |last1=Mezzofiore |first1=Gianluca |date=2019-08-05 |access-date=2019-08-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820031158/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/business/el-paso-shooting-8chan-biz/index.html |archive-date=2019-08-20 |publisher=[[CNN]] |last2=O'Sullivan |first2=Donie}}</ref> The site has been known to host [[child pornography]];<ref name="Howell2014" /><ref name="WashPost" /> as a result, it was filtered out from [[Google Search]] in 2015.<ref name="ars-8chancensor" /> Several of the site's boards played an active role in the [[Gamergate (harassment campaign)|Gamergate]] harassment campaign, encouraging Gamergate affiliates to frequent 8chan after [[4chan]] banned the topic. 8chan is the homeorigin and main center of activity of the discredited [[QAnon|QAnon]] [[conspiracy theory]].<ref name="far-right conspiracy theory">Sources:

*{{cite journal |last1=Guglielmi |first1=Giorgia |date=28 October 2020 |title=The next-generation bots interfering with the US election |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=587 |issue=7832 |page=21 |doi=10.1038/d41586-020-03034-5 |pmid=33116324 |bibcode=2020Natur.587...21G |s2cid=226052075 |doi-access=free}}

[[File:8chan_logo.svg|thumb|left|alt=Green infinity symbol, with "chan" underneath in black lowercase sans serif text|Former 8chan logo]]

Brennan agreed to partner 8chan with the Japanese message board [[2channel|2chan]],<ref name="KYM">{{cite interview |url=http://knowyourmeme.com/blog/interviews/qa-with-fredrick-brennan-of-8chan |title=Q&A with Fredrick Brennan of 8chan |last=Brennan |first=Fredrick |interviewer=Don Caldwell |date=October 9, 2014 |work=[[Know Your Meme]] |access-date=December 18, 2014 |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211070911/http://knowyourmeme.com/blog/interviews/qa-with-fredrick-brennan-of-8chan |url-status=dead }}</ref> and subsequently relocated to the [[Philippines]] in October 2014.<ref name=Chen />

[[Matthew Prince]], CEO of [[Cloudflare]], initially defended his firm's technological support of 8chan on August 3, 2019, the day of the [[2019 El Paso shooting|El Paso shooting]]: "What happened in El Paso today is abhorrent in every possible way, and it's ugly, and I hate that there's any association between us and that {{Nbsp}}... For us the question is which is the worse evil?"<ref name="Matthew Prince"/>

However, by the next day, August 4, with increasing press attention, Cloudflare changed its position, and rescinded its support for 8chan effective midnight August 5 [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific Time]], potentially leaving the site open for [[denial of service]] attacks. Prince stated: "Unfortunately the action we take today won't fix hate online&nbsp;... It will almost certainly not even remove 8chan from the Internet. But it is the right thing to do."<ref name="the verge 20190804"/> ThePrince wrote on the Cloudflare Blog:<ref>{{cite wroteweb |last=Prince |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Prince |date=August 4, 2019 |title=Terminating Service for 8Chan |url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ |access-date=April 9, 2024 |website=Cloudflare Blog}}</ref>

{{quoteblockquote|8chan is among the more than 19 million Internet properties that use Cloudflare's service. We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ |title=Terminating Service for 8Chan |website=Cloudflare Blog |date=August 5, 2019}}</ref>}}

On September 18, 2014, 8chan became entangled in the [[Gamergate (harassment campaign)|Gamergate]] harassment campaign after 4chan banned discussion of Gamergate,<ref name="Howell2014" /><ref name="Chen" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/10/15/4chan-wizardchan-8chan-le-guide-des-forums-anonymes-les-plus-populaires-du-web_4505380_4408996.html |title=4chan, wizardchan, 8chan... s'y retrouver dans la jungle des forums anonymes les plus populaires du Web |last=Audureau |first=William |date=October 15, 2014 |work=[[Le Monde]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528194203/https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/10/15/4chan-wizardchan-8chan-le-guide-des-forums-anonymes-les-plus-populaires-du-web_4505380_4408996.html |archive-date=May 28, 2019 |language=fr |trans-title=4chan, wizardchan, 8chan... find your way through the jungle of the most popular anonymous forums on the Web}}</ref> whereupon 8chan became one of several hubs for Gamergate activity.<ref name="Howell2014" /><ref name="Chen">{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/gamergate-supporters-party-at-strip-club.html |title=Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend |last=Chen |first=Adrian |date=October 27, 2014 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809180327/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/gamergate-supporters-party-at-strip-club.html |archive-date=August 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Buzz" /><ref name="Guardian 2015-01-13" /> The site was little-known prior to the controversy.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Oscar |date=7 November 2019 |title=8chan, 8kun, 4chan, Endchan: What you need to know |work=[[CNET]] |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/8chan-8kun-4chan-endchan-what-you-need-to-know-internet-forums/ |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref> 8chan's initial Gamergate-oriented board "/gg/" also gained attention after being compromised by members of the [[internet troll]] group [[Gay Nigger Association of America]], forcing Gamergate activists to migrate to "/gamergate/". This replacement quickly became the site's second-most accessed board.<ref name="Buzz">{{cite news |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/gamergates-headquarters-has-been-destroyed-by-trolls |title=GamerGate's Headquarters Has Been Destroyed By Trolls |last1=Bernstein |first1=Joseph |date=December 4, 2014 |work=[[BuzzFeed News]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417032357/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/gamergates-headquarters-has-been-destroyed-by-trolls |archive-date=April 17, 2019}}</ref>

In January 2015, the site was used as a base for [[swatting]] exploits in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Seattle]], and [[Burnaby|Burnaby, British Columbia]], most of them tied to the victims' criticism of Gamergate and 8chan's association with it;<ref name="Mattise">{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/8chan-tries-swatting-gamergate-critic-sends-cops-to-an-old-address/ |title=8chan tries "swatting" GamerGate critic, sends cops to an old address |last=Mattise |first=Nathan |date=January 4, 2015 |work=[[Ars Technica]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628222440/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/8chan-tries-swatting-gamergate-critic-sends-cops-to-an-old-address/ |archive-date=June 28, 2015}}</ref> the attacks were coordinated on a [[Internet forum|board]] on the website called "/baphomet/".<ref name="Guardian 2015-01-13">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/13/gamergate-hits-new-low-with-attempts-to-send-swat-teams-to-critics |title=Gamergate hits new low with attempts to send Swat teams to critics |last=Hern |first=Alex |date=January 13, 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=January 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014154938/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/13/gamergate-hits-new-low-with-attempts-to-send-swat-teams-to-critics |archive-date=October 14, 2019}}</ref> One of the victims of a swatting attack said that she was singled out because she had followed someone on [[Twitter]].<ref name="GlobalNews 2015-01-15">{{cite news |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1773840/police-called-to-burnaby-womens-home-by-online-harassers/ |title=Police falsely called to Burnaby women's home by online harassers |last=McElroy |first=Justin |date=January 15, 2015 |access-date=January 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910022805/https://globalnews.ca/news/1773840/police-called-to-burnaby-womens-home-by-online-harassers/ |archive-date=September 10, 2018 |publisher=[[Global News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/26081/article/canadian-victim-of-gamergate-swatting-attempt-comes-forward/ |title=Canadian Victim of Gamergate SWATing Attempt Comes Forward |work=Gameranx |last=Cheong |first=Ian Miles |date=January 13, 2015 |access-date=January 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116035109/http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/26081/article/canadian-victim-of-gamergate-swatting-attempt-comes-forward/ |archive-date=January 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://bc.ctvnews.ca/reckless-swatting-prank-sends-police-to-b-c-woman-s-home-1.2189547 |title=Reckless 'swatting' prank sends police to B.C. woman's home |author=<!-- Staff writers --> |date=January 14, 2015 |access-date=September 30, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001150749/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/reckless-swatting-prank-sends-police-to-b-c-woman-s-home-1.2189547 |archive-date=October 1, 2015 |publisher=[[CTV News]]}}</ref> On February 9, 2015, content on the "/baphomet/" subboard was wiped after [[doxxing|personal information]] of [[Katherine B. Forrest|Katherine Forrest]], the presiding judge in the [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]] case, had been posted there.<ref name="silkroad">{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/notorious-8chan-subboard-has-history-wiped-after-federal-judges-doxing/ |title=Notorious 8chan "subboard" has history wiped after federal judge's doxing |last=Machkovech |first=Sam |date=February 12, 2015 |work=[[Ars Technica]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410113409/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/notorious-8chan-subboard-has-history-wiped-after-federal-judges-doxing/ |archive-date=April 10, 2019 |access-date=February 13, 2015}}</ref>

Boards have been created to discuss topics such as [[child rape]]. While the sharing of illegal content is against site rules, ''[[The Daily Dot]]'' wrote that boards do exist to share sexualized images of minors in provocative poses, and that some users of those boards do post links to explicit child pornography hosted elsewhere.<ref name="Howell2014"/> When asked whether such boards were an inevitable result of free speech, Brennan responded: "Unfortunately, yes. I don’tdon't support the content on the boards you mentioned, but it is simply the cost of free speech and being the only active site to not impose more 'laws' than those that were passed in [[Washington, D.C.]]"<ref name="Howell2014"/>

In October 2017, a [[4chan]] user that referred to himself as "Q" started gaining attention attention by promoting conspiracy theories about the [[Deep state in the United States|deep state]].<ref name="nymag">{{Cite news |last=Martineau |first=Paris |date=December 19, 2017 |title=The Storm Is the New Pizzagate – Only Worse |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url=https://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-storm-conspiracy-explained.html |access-date=March 26, 2018 |issn=0028-7369}}</ref> The next month, citing security concerns, Q moved to 8chan and only posted there from then on, eventually leading to an international movement.<ref name="zadrozny">{{cite web |last1=Zadrozny |first1=Brandy |author-link1=Brandy Zadrozny |last2=Collins |first2=Ben |date=August 8, 2018 |title=How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531 |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=NBC News}}</ref> [[Sean Hannity]] has retweeted QAnon hashtags on his Twitter feed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.salon.com/2018/02/20/anti-abortion-group-operation-rescue-has-become-fully-red-pilled-by-an-8chan-conspiracy-theory_partner/ |title=Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has become fully "red-pilled" by an 8chan conspiracy theory |last=Kann |first=Sharon |date=February 20, 2018 |work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |access-date=March 14, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806054419/https://www.salon.com/2018/02/20/anti-abortion-group-operation-rescue-has-become-fully-red-pilled-by-an-8chan-conspiracy-theory_partner/ |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/infowars-fully-embraces-storm-conspiracy-theory-called-new-pizzagate |title=Infowars fully embraces 'The Storm', a conspiracy theory called "the new Pizzagate" |last=López G. |first=Cristina |date=January 8, 2018 |access-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027013919/https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/infowars-fully-embraces-storm-conspiracy-theory-called-new-pizzagate |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |publisher=[[Media Matters for America]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@willsommer/meet-the-storm-the-conspiracy-theory-taking-over-the-pro-trump-internet-3ec94bf7d8a3 |title=Meet "The Storm," the conspiracy theory taking over the pro-Trump internet |last=Sommer |first=Will |date=January 12, 2018 |via=[[Medium (website)|Medium]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214043508/https://medium.com/@willsommer/meet-the-storm-the-conspiracy-theory-taking-over-the-pro-trump-internet-3ec94bf7d8a3 |archive-date=February 14, 2019 |access-date=March 14, 2018}}</ref> On March 14, 2018, the initial group of Q followers on [[Reddit]] were banned over their promotion of the theory.<ref>{{cite tweet |url=https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/974040645781291009 |title=Reddit has banned the main subreddit devoted to the right-wing "#QAnon" conspiracy theory popular on Infowars, and is apparently purging a bunch of users' accounts as wellpic.twitter.com/3EZvxbuVJH |last=Sommer |first=Will |date=March 14, 2018 |language=en |via=Twitter |access-date=March 14, 2018 |number=974040645781291009 |user=willsommer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/reddit-bans-r-cbts_stream/ |title=Reddit bans popular deep state conspiracy forum for 'inciting violence' |last=Wyrich |first=Andrew |date=March 15, 2018 |website=[[The Daily Dot]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321062345/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/reddit-bans-r-cbts_stream/ |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> They quickly regrouped into a new subreddit, which featured posts from Q and other anonymous posters on 8chan in a more reader-friendly format. The subreddit was banned<ref name="zadrozny"/> for a second time on September 12, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-movement-reddit-ban-voat-facebook/ |title=QAnon Followers Have Limited Options After Reddit Ban |last=Rothschild |first=Mike |date=September 14, 2018 |website=[[The Daily Dot]] |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514161035/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-movement-reddit-ban-voat-facebook/ |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |access-date=December 12, 2018}}</ref> With a flood of new users on the board, Q asked one of the website's owners, Ron Watkins, to upgrade the website's servers in order to accommodate all of the board's website traffic on September 19, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qanon.pub/?q=upgrade#2224 |title=Q |website=qanon.pub |access-date=2018-12-12}}</ref>

The movement has been linked with the [[Pizzagate conspiracy theory]]. The Q movement has also been linked to the hashtags #TheGreatAwakening and #WWG1WGA,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/qanon-slogan-spoken-from-trump-rally-podium-as-fbi-warns-about-conspiracy-theory-related-violence |title=QAnon slogan spoken from Trump rally podium as FBI warns about conspiracy theory-related violence |last=Dunleavy |first=Jerry |date=August 2, 2019 |work=[[The Washington Examiner]] |access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wjv7q5/one-of-canadas-more-prominent-politicians-is-sharing-qanon-youtubers |title=One of Canada's More Prominent Politicians Is Sharing QAnon YouTubers |last=Lamoureux |first=Mack |date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=October 26, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627175513/https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wjv7q5/one-of-canadas-more-prominent-politicians-is-sharing-qanon-youtubers |archive-date=June 27, 2019 |publisher=[[Vice News]]}}</ref> which stands for "where we go one, we go all"; it's is also sometimes linked with the phrase "Follow the White Rabbit".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/follow-the-white-rabbit-conspiracy-theory/ |title='Follow the White Rabbit' is the most bonkers conspiracy theory you will ever read |last=Kelly |first=Tiffany |date=November 21, 2017 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |access-date=March 14, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925123023/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/follow-the-white-rabbit-conspiracy-theory/ |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In September 2018, the [[Louisiana State Police]] were scrutinized for using a [[hoax]] list of personal information about supposed [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]] activists originally posted on 8chan's politics board. The document, dubbed "full list of antifa.docx" by police officers, actually contained the names of several thousand people who signed online petitions against then- President Donald Trump. The State Police has refused to disclose the list, claiming it would "compromise" ongoing criminal investigations in which it expects arrests. A lawsuit against Louisiana State Police was filed on behalf of the record requester by Harvard lecturer and former public defender Thomas Frampton, alleging that the Police's refusal to release the list indicates that it actually believed the credibility of the hoax list and used it in investigations and litigations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180902/08580340566/louisiana-police-appear-to-be-using-hoax-antifa-list-created-8chan-to-open-criminal-investigations.shtml |title=Louisiana Police Appear To Be Using A Hoax Antifa List Created By 8Chan To Open Criminal Investigations |last=Cushing |first=Tim |date=September 4, 2018 |website=[[Techdirt]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622004814/https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180902/08580340566/louisiana-police-appear-to-be-using-hoax-antifa-list-created-8chan-to-open-criminal-investigations.shtml |archive-date=June 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-state-police-circulated-fake-antifa-members-list-taken-neo-nazi-1101268 |title=Louisiana State Police Circulated Fake Antifa Members List Taken from Neo-Nazi Websites: Lawsuit |last=Porter |first=Tom |date=September 2, 2018 |work=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=October 26, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616190615/https://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-state-police-circulated-fake-antifa-members-list-taken-neo-nazi-1101268 |archive-date=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://wgno.com/2018/08/30/lawsuit-claims-louisiana-state-police-has-antifa-roster-from-neo-nazi-site/ |title=Lawsuit claims Louisiana State Police has 'antifa' roster from Neo-Nazi site |date=August 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520041118/https://wgno.com/2018/08/30/lawsuit-claims-louisiana-state-police-has-antifa-roster-from-neo-nazi-site/ |archive-date=May 20, 2019 |publisher=[[WGNO]]}}</ref>

New Zealand ISPs [[Spark New Zealand|Spark]], [[VodafoneOne New Zealand|VodafoneNZ]], and [[2degrees]], with a near monopoly of the broadband and mobile market share in New Zealand, also followed suit in blocking 4chan, 8chan, Zero Hedge, and LiveLeak for a number of weeks following the shootings, blocking 8chan and other similar websites at a DNS level in an attempt to prevent the proliferation of widely accessible content that was classified as objectionable by the [[Chief Censor of New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brodkin |first1=Jon |title=4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/australian-and-nz-isps-blocked-dozens-of-sites-that-host-nz-shooting-video/ |website=Ars Technica |access-date=21 February 2020 |language=en-us |date=20 March 2019}}</ref>

John T. Earnest, the alleged perpetrator of a shooting at a synagogue in [[Poway, California]], on April 27, 2019, and an [[Escondido mosque fire|earlier arson attack]] at a mosque in nearby [[Escondido, California|Escondido]] on March 25, had posted links to his [[open letter]] and his attempted livestream on 8chan, which Earnest also named as a place of radicalization for him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/us-news/anti-semitic-open-letter-online-under-chabad-synagogue-n999211 |title=Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect |last1=Collins |first1=Ben |date=April 27, 2019 |access-date=April 29, 2019 |work=[[NBC News]] |last2=Blankstein |first2=Andrew}}</ref> According to 8chan's Twitter, the shooter's post was removed nine minutes after its creation.<ref>{{cite tweet |author=8chan (8ch.net) |user=infinitechan |number=1122494322283167745 |date=April 28, 2019 |title=The Poway shooter's post on 8chan was taken down NINE minutes after creation. There are only screencaps available and no archives exist since the post was deleted so quickly. The loudest groups publicizing this crime and giving attention to this CRIMINAL are the fake-news media.}}</ref>

Patrick Crusius, the suspect in a mass shooting at a [[Walmart]] store in [[El Paso, Texas]], on August 3, 2019, allegedly posted a four-page [[white nationalist]] manifesto ''The Inconvenient Truth'' on 8chan less than an hour before the shooting began. 8chan moderators quickly removed the original post, though users continued to circulate links to this manifesto.<ref name="Matthew Prince">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio-8chan-far-right-website |title=8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes |author=Wong |first=Julia Carrie |date=August 3, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=August 3, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809180407/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio-8chan-far-right-website |archive-date=August 9, 2019 |quote=Three attackers in six months allegedly posted their plans on the site in advance. In an exclusive interview, Silicon Valley CEO explains his ‘moral obligation’obligation' to keep 8chan online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-and-the-gamification-of-terror/ |title=The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror |last=Evans |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Evans (journalist) |date=August 4, 2019 |publisher=[[Bellingcat]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822095544/https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-and-the-gamification-of-terror/ |archive-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref>

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