After weeks of activist pressure, internet infrastructure company Cloudflare recently ended its support for Kiwi Farms, an online group that’s been described as “the web’s biggest community of ...

Six years ago, Fredrick Brennan created the message board 8chan as a haven for free speech. Now, in the wake of Saturday’s shooting in El Paso, he wants the site shut down. In interviews with The New ...

In 2006, Fredrick Brennan was introduced to 4chan, an online message board he soon found too restrictive. He began to envision a site where any legal speech would be welcome, no matter how toxic. In ...

MANILA (Reuters) - 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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The computer programmer Fredrick Brennan started the online image board 8chan in 2013 as a space for uncensored speech, a place where anyone could ...

Fredrick Brennan, the founder of 8chan, wants the site to be shut down following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that resulted in 29 deaths. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor ...

In a move that is deeply decent and sensical, a technology company has announced that it will no longer be complicit in white supremacist hatred by pulling the plug on services for 8chan, a website ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fredrick Brennan has little affection for 8chan, the fringe internet message board he started in 2013. After operating for years in the shadows of the internet, the website has ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of the network provider Cloudflare. The online message board 8chan, which has been linked to three mass shootings in ...

"We just sent notice we are terminating service for 8chan," Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince tweeted. "There comes a time when enough is enough. But this isn't the end. We need to have a ...