‘Cheering section’ for violence: the attacks that show 4chan is still a threat
The Washington DC shooting was the most recent to spawn out of the extremist culture of unregulated ‘chan’ message boards
When police in Washington DC burst into a fifth-floor apartment building on 22 April in search of a man who allegedly had shot four people at random, they found Raymond Spencer dead by his own hand, a cache of guns and ammunition, and a poster with an ironic white supremacist meme.
The poster invoking the meme, popular on the extremist online forum 4chan, was a stark
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