After a third mass shooting in 2019 has been linked to 8chan, even the founder wants it to end.
Jordan Culver and Kristin LamThe online message board 8chan, which has been linked to three mass shootings in 2019, will be terminated, Cloudfare announced late Sunday night, just hours after the site's founder called for its end.
During media interviews earlier Sunday, 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan called for the imageboard 's end.Quiet Texas neighborhood stunned by connection to El Paso shooting suspect Many of the posts that could be quickly accessed prior to the website's termination included offensive images and language.
In April, a shooter posted a manifesto to 8chan before killing one woman and injuring three others at a California synagogue. One anonymous 8chan user, for example, praised the El Paso shooting in a thread, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a news release.
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