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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Congress subpoenaed the owner of 8chan Wednesday, 11 days after a Texas man posted a racist screed on the website just before massacring 22 people in El Paso. The House Committee on Homeland Security demanded website owner Jim Watkins testify before it on September 5 as part of work on how to counter extremist content online. The site has become known for carrying content and discussions from the […]
The owner of the 8chan chat forum has described moves to shut down his website because it hosted hate messages linked to deadly US killings as “sinister” and “cowardly”. In a video uploaded to Youtube on Tuesday, Philippines-based Jim Watkins said the deadly weekend attacks in the American cities of El Paso and Dayton were a tragedy. But Watkins insisted 8chan had not broken any laws, and devoted most of his seven-and-a-half-minute video to criticising […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice is gathering information on an online message board that is linked to mass shootings abroad and which is allegedly being run from the Philippines. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said this was before the DOJ would decide whether looking into 8chan–where the gunman in the El Paso, Texas shootings was supposed to have made a post in reference to the killings—was something the National Bureau of Investigation should do. 8chan was […]
