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The suspect in Saturday's mass shooting in Texas allegedly posted a hate-filled manifesto on the same message board used earlier this year by the suspect in the Christchurch mosque massacre

The man suspected of killing 20 people and injuring 26 more in a shooting rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, allegedly posted a hate-filled manifesto on the same fringe online message board used earlier this year by the suspect in the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque massacre.

The message board, known as 8chan, was founded in 2013 as a no-holds-barred bastion of unconstrained speech devoted to critiquing what its creator saw as the dominance of left-wing views in culture and politics. It is available on the open internet,...

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