Several accused far-right shooters appear to have used 8chan to telegraph their intended attacks
The online message forum that posted several alleged mass shooters’ manifestos, including one linked to the person detained in Saturday’s killing of 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, went dark after a technology provider said it would pull its support.
Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, which provided some internet infrastructure for fringe online forum 8chan, late Sunday said it would terminate the site as a customer at midnight Pacific Time.
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