far-right extremism

An archived screenshot of 8chan, an online message board that shooters have used to post messages before their attacks, describes itself as "the darkest reaches of the Internet."

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'Uniquely Lawless': Security Firm Drops 8chan Website Following El Paso Shooting

5:54pm August 05, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

"At some level firing 8chan as a customer is easy," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said. Before the Texas shooting, the suspect is believed to have posted a white nationalist, anti-Hispanic screed.

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The Website Where Violent White Supremacists State Their Case

10:11am August 05, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

The El Paso shooter targeted a Latino community and left a manifesto on the website 8chan — hallmarks of a white extremist attack, experts say, and not to be confused with other types of shootings.

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Michael McGarrity, FBI Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division; Calvin Shivers, FBI Deputy Assistant Director in the Criminal Investigative Division; and Elizabeth Neumann, an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, answer

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5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration's Response To Far-Right Extremism

6:12pm June 07, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing the federal government to detail its plans to fight white supremacy and other far-right extremism. Details are scarce, but here's what we know so far.