• ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Why would the CIA go after 4chan? If anything, the CIA would fully embrace a digital House Unamerican Activities Committee.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      CIA or FBI, they have this tradition of contacting extremely unstable isolated people to groom them into making terrorist attacks.

      This is not an unhinged urban legend, it's well documented.

    • shiny [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Brenton Terrant and the other people mobilized from chan sites aren’t doing it out of patriotism but rather white nationalism. Hell, 8chan got axed by CloudFare… The chans has a deep seething hatred of current American life