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The Man Trying to Resurrect 8chan (Starring 8chan's Founder)

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The New York Times Fact Check

8chan's chief journalistic coup was getting two of its reporters press credentials for the 2018 Singapore summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. They spent most of the trip failing to get their camera to function properly because they're not good at it. Also wasted a lot of money doing a bungee jump. The poll went from mostly ironic Nazi posting and far-right shit posting to unironic neo-Nazi exterminationist rhetoric.

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