Message boards like 8chan aren’t the only place where these things are spread: In March, when there were two mass shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the shootings were live-streamed on Facebook and then viewed millions of times on YouTube. But it was only a matter of time before someone else agreed to support the site: By Tuesday morning, 8chan was back online, spewing a toxic mix of hatred, violence and QAnon conspiracies. They just don’t realize it.”Īfter the El Paso massacre, the 8chan website briefly went offline when Cloudflare, the network provider, banned it. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. In an interview with The Times, he said, “It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. In the hours after the El Paso shooting last weekend, Fredrick Brennan, the founder of the online message board 8chan - the site that had hosted the racist manifestoes of the men responsible for the El Paso, Christchurch and Poway synagogue shootings - called for the site to be shut down.
