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4chan Tried to Stop These High School Students From Winning a NASA Competition
Mayor awards $4,000 to black high school students who faced online racist backlash in NASA competition. The money will be used for the teens to further develop their water purification method.
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What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?
Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing accounts for posing as soulless, “nonplayable” liberal activists.
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An anonymous 4chan post could help solve a 25-year-old math mystery
A 4chan poster may have solved part of a very tricky math problem that mathematicians have been working on for at least 25 years. The user was just trying to figure out the most efficient way to watch episodes of a nonlinear anime series, but the result has generated considerable interest from mathematicians around the world who have no way to identify the anonymous user.
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Notorious Website 4chan To Be Shutdown
4chan, an infamous hub for trolls, hackers, and neo nazis, is to be shut down sometime in 2019. Hiroyuki Nishimura, the owner of 4chan was interviewed this afternoon by CNN, and he shed light on a couple of things related to the site closing. According to him the site had become a problem to deal with and maintain, saying that “The site has become a weight that we just don’t feel like carrying anymore”.
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Rep. Devin Nunes repeated a 4chan meme on national television
Last night on Laura Ingraham’s show, The Ingraham Angle, a strange thing happened (stranger than usual, I mean). Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) stopped by for an interview, ostensibly to talk about Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) latest actions regarding the ongoing Russia probe. “This is clearly an investigation again, without a crime. We’ve looked for two years — didn’t find anything, at all,” Nunes said, which is misleading at best. He went on to speak about the “cottage industry” of press people who are following the case and reporting it...
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'It Came From Something Awful' Links 4Chan And Today's Political Discourse
If author Dale Beran is to be believed, all the world's an Internet forum. His new book offers an overview of Internet culture and explores the mindset and techniques of early Internet trolls.
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Cloudflare has had enough, cutting off 8chan
Cloudflare CEO says site may return, but it'll be someone else's problem.
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4chan user posted about Jeffrey Epstein's death before it was public
Authorities now want to know who was behind the post, which contained medically accurate details about the financier and accused sex trafficker.
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The men behind QAnon
For nearly three years, QAnon followers have been feverishly deciphering thousands of cryptic clues and predictions posted online by the shadowy persona of "Q" at the center of a metastasizing movement that experts say is the first far-right extremist conspiracy theory in the modern era to penetrate mainstream American culture and Washington politics.
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4Chan Users Claim to Have Found Way to Easily Change People's Voter Registration and Cancel Ballots Online in Oregon and Washington
Claims from users on the anonymous messageboard 4Chan went viral on Saturday evening, as people said they discovered a way that ballots can be cancelled online in Washington — and that an Oregon voter’s registration can be changed, using just the voter’s name and date of birth.
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