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Meet The Likable Founder Of 4Chan, The Darkest Corner of the Web
Sure, Poole's brainchild has gained notoriety for spawning online abuse, high-level pranks, and the…
Jillian D'Onfro
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4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google after 5 years and several job changes
Chris Poole, founder of 4chan, has left Google after five years. Poole sold 4chan to entrepreneur H…
Anna Cooban
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4Chan Creator Chris Poole Launches His Creativity App DrawQuest For The iPhone
"DrawQuest feels like a game on the surface and we use the daily challenge part of the app to draw …
Jillian D'Onfro
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Student Who Allegedly Broadcast His Suicide Attempt Charged With Arson And 'Disregard For Human Life'
The 21-year-old male identified in the video is a student at the University of Guelph, where he cau…
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The founder of 4chan is going to Google
Even though 4chan became one of the biggest, most powerful websites in the world, Poole never …
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Intel's proprietary source code leaked, company confirms
Chip-maker Intel has reportedly confirmed that its 'Alder Lake BIOS' source code has been leaked by…
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NYC attorney general is investigating Twitch, Discord, and 4Chan over the Buffalo shooting
NYC AG Letitia James said she's investigating the platforms which the suspected shooter used to "pl…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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What to know about Kiwi Farms, the forum that has been linked to suicides and was made to troll Chris Chan years before she was arrested on an incest charge
Kiwi Farms originated as a forum dedicated to Chris Chan - who was arrested Sunday on an incest cha…
Charlotte Colombo
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The Founder Of 4chan Leaves The Controversial Company After More Than 11 Years
I've spent the past two years working behind the scenes to address these challenges, and to provide…
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Notorious forum 4chan has been sold to the creator of the Japanese site that helped inspire it
The site's creator, Christopher Poole, said 4chan was based on the Futaba channel - a Japanese-lang…
Rob Price
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4chan Creator Chris Poole Reveals The Next Version Of His Current Big Project, DrawQuest
Canvas hasn't become extremely popular (yet). Poole believes the reason is that it asks its users t…
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200 People Watched A Canadian College Student Light Himself On Fire In An Apparent Suicide Attempt
Another 4chan user set up a video chatroom with a 200-person limit, where "Stephen" proceeded to sw…
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Chris Chan, the online personality accused by police of incest with her mother, has been trolled by the internet for over a decade
Chris Chan, the internet star who was arrested and charged with incest, has been involved in numero…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A social-media trend has people identifying as 'super straight.' The transphobic campaign was meant to divide LGBTQ people.
Super straight, what some are calling a new sexual identity, was being pushed by far-right trolls o…
Steven Asarch
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4chan Hackers Are Threatening To Post Naked Photographs Of Emma Watson
Fake countdown sites are a classic tactic for internet pranksters. In 2013, a prankster created a c…
James Cook
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Facebook And Google 'Degrade Our Humanity,' Says 4chan Founder
Poole believes people actually have many versions of themselves offline – one for the office, one f…
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4chan, 8chan, and LiveLeak blocked by Australian internet providers for hosting the livestream of New Zealand mosque shootings
US tech firms like Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, scrambled to remove videos of the attac…
Alexandra Ma
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Chris Poole Is The Creator Of One Of The World's Biggest And Most Powerful Web Sites, And It Is Very Strange That He Is Not Insanely Rich
"Memes" like Lolcats and Rick Rolling started there. The hacking group Anonymous, and the group be…
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Someone that may have had inside information on the death of Jeffrey Epstein reported his apparent suicide on 4chan before the news went public
4chan's politics board, or /pol/, is notorious for its far-right leanings and racist discussions. U…