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New York investigators release report from "chilling" Buffalo shooting

Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James have called on federal and state reforms to combat online extremism and violence.

Axios · Oct 18, 2022

Far-right online trolls try jamming up LGBT+ youth suicide hotline

4chan users accused of plotting to ‘f*** up’ The Trevor Project’s crisis line: ‘This is egregious’

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

This AI posted on 4chan for days before being unmasked

Yannic Kilcher trained his bot on 134.5 million 4chan posts. What could go wrong?

Input · Jun 11, 2022

Paul Gosar deletes tweet blaming Texas shooting on ‘transsexual leftist illegal alien’

Arizona Republican was stripped of committee assignments last year

The Independent UK · May 25, 2022

New York attorney general launches probe of Twitch and Discord after Buffalo shooting

The investigation targets online platforms including video-streaming site Twitch, messaging platform Discord and the anonymous message board 4chan.

WEKU · May 18, 2022

Buffalo shooter let some people see plans just before attack

Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary

The Independent UK · May 18, 2022

How the Buffalo massacre is part of US tradition: ‘We’ll continue to see killings’

Brandi Collins-Dexter of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center spoke to the Guardian about how the massacre is rooted in America’s long history of white supremacist violence

The Guardian - US · May 18, 2022

First Thing: Joe Biden says ‘white supremacy is a poison’

President attacks those who promote racist conspiracy theory ‘for power, political gain and for profit’. Plus, first open briefing on UFOs since 1966

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2022

How 4chan’s toxic culture helped radicalize Buffalo shooting suspect

Payton Gendron’s 180-page manifesto borrowed straight from the site’s politics boards, echoing antisemitic and racist myths

The Guardian - US · May 18, 2022

Accused Buffalo gunman followed familiar radicalization path

The white gunman charged in a racist rampage inside a Buffalo supermarket didn’t need to travel abroad for tactical training, nor did he need to join an organization of like-minded militants who shared his world view

The Independent UK · May 16, 2022