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Politicians are still determined to investigate 8chan's role in fueling extremism even though the site is effectively out of commission. from https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/06/house-committee-asks-8chan-owner-to-testify/ https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?quality=85&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D3973%252C2498%252C0%252C0%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C1006%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-images%252F2019-08%252Fc7feb5a0-b894-11e9-8afb-59e3b397e4b9%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3D7129999f9710630d21e0fb45f42309536154955c&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=0533be9371fd88d4c50ba6679e5a42b0138427ba

Less than an hour before this weekend's deadly mass-shooting in El Paso, Texas, the suspect appears to have posted a rambling post filled with white nationalist and racist statements on 8chan. from https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/05/8chan-cloudflare-internet-services-pull-support/ https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?quality=85&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D3336%252C2104%252C0%252C20%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C1010%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-images%252F2019-08%252F040c2070-b749-11e9-be32-8021aa8d383f%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3D0fce2003fb71d4fd6130f87670ed8bbae3db91ff&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=994d6e3186ba3c906d77733b4f4ef4c7d4be246b

The site allows any content to be posted, so long as it adheres to United States law. Several of the site's boards have played an active role in the Gamergate controversy, encouraging Gamergate affiliates to frequent 8chan after the topic was banned on the unaffiliated imageboard 4chan. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/InfiniteChan%E2%88%9EchanLogo.svg/200px-InfiniteChan%E2%88%9EchanLogo.svg.png