Founder of far-right platform 8chan says he created ‘a monster’
The online message board has been linked to at least three mass shootings, including the recent murder of 22 people in El Paso, Texas
06 August 2019 - 16:41
Manila — The creator of a far-right online message board connected to three mass shootings that killed dozens of people has described himself as “naive and ignorant”, likening the platform 8chan to Frankenstein’s monster, with no limit to its extremism.
Fredrick Brennan, who is just 25 and lives in the Philippines, said the free-wheeling web board he created in 2013 has become a hive of white supremacy, anonymous hate, and Neo-Nazism since he sold it to a fellow American, and said he felt a sense of guilt, “sometimes”...
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