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OpinionHow the Internet Left 4chan Behind: The anonymous forum thrived when edgelord content wasn’t acceptable on more mainstream social media. Today ...
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4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’: 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks ...
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After a 'catastrophic' hack, 4chan has risen from the grave: 'No other website can replace it, or this community'
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Ofcom admits it may never collect 4chan’s fines after AI hamster trolling: Ofcom has acknowledged that foreign courts could prevent it from recovering online ...
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cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?: fear of capital letters has a gripped a generation—but they might not know it's part of a ...
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Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC | LBC
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Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director: With its origins in a creepy image posted on 4chan, Backrooms is an unusually potent ...
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4chan’s Misogynist ‘Wizards’ Are Nudifying Women by Request: As nonconsensual explicit deepfakes continue to proliferate online, entire communities are now ...
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‘Infinite Jest,’ the Internet, and the Politics of Reading | Los Angeles Review of Books
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UK fines 4chan nearly $700,000 for failing its online safety act obligations: UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s ...
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Jeffrey Epstein’s 4chan Plan: The sex-trafficker’s fingerprints are all over the early rise of the alt-right and the far-right conspiracy movements that would ...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/06/jeffrey-epsteins-4chan-plan/

Lily Allen, Taylor Swift’s Internet Lyrics Don’t Make Sense: Lily Allen’s “4chan Stan” is the latest in a series of pop songs that try — and fail — to confront ...
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Messageboard 4chan refuses to pay fine over ‘free speech’: The US messageboard is openly defying British regulators and refusing to comply with the Online Safety ...
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UK regulator fines 4chan $26,000 and counting under Online Safety Act: UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom writes that 4chan has not responded to a request for a copy of ...
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4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says
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4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC: The online message board's lawyers say UK safety laws shouldn't apply to a business based in the ...
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Selfies, 4chan, and a war of the sexes: Lessons from the hacking of Tea: Leaks from a dating safety app designed for women’s anonymous reviews of men reveals the ...
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Wordpilled slangmaxxing: how incel language infected the mainstream internet — and brought its toxicity with it
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4chan and porn sites investigated by Ofcom: Nine companies are under investigation by Ofcom, using powers of the Online Safety Act.
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4chan: The Internet's Nuclear Repository: No place on the internet is as toxic yet as creative as 4chan. Hackers brought the site down for twelve days ...
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