8chan, the Hate Site That's Hard to Kill
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🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The 8chan message board has become synonymous with hate speech. It’s been a go-to forum for mass shooters’ manifestos. It courts devotees of the cultish QAnon conspiracy theory. In August, 8chan was booted from the internet, but now the forum is making a comeback, in spite of the dogged group of activists and journalists trying to take it offline permanently.
Guest: Robert Evans, investigative journalist for Bellingcat and host of the podcast, Behind the Bastards.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers.
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| 0:00.0 | There's this video I can't stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.0 | It got posted on YouTube after the Christchurch shootings last spring. |
| 0:12.3 | An American guy living in the Philippines, his name is Jim Watkins. |
| 0:17.2 | He stares straight out at the camera. |
| 0:19.5 | Piano music plays in the background. |
| 0:21.5 | Condolences to the victims of the New Zealand shootings. |
| 0:25.4 | So many pious folks lost because of psychotic rage. |
| 0:30.0 | Jim Watkins is an older guy with mutton chops and a mustache. |
| 0:34.3 | He's got these bushy eyebrows that are combed up to make little points above his glasses. |
| 0:39.9 | Videos like this one, they've become a bit of a ritual for this guy. |
| 0:44.9 | After shootings in Texas and Ohio this summer, he was at it again. |
| 0:56.1 | What a sad weekend. |
| 1:00.1 | I just finished watching the President of the United States give his condolences to the families of the victims of the El Paso Walmart shooting |
| 1:05.4 | and the Dayton, Ohio shooting. |
| 1:08.1 | His speeches seem like they're a sick kind of joke. |
| 1:12.7 | If you could only figure out what the joke is. |
| 1:15.3 | It is indeed. |
| 1:16.4 | Such a sad day and time in the history of the world. |
| 1:21.1 | The worst sort of monster shoots up random people. |
| 1:25.7 | That it is the fact that insanity is obviously involved. |
| 1:30.7 | He communicates bizarrely. I don't really know what's going on in the dude's head. |
| 1:37.2 | Robert Evans watches these videos as part of his job. He covers extremism and the internet. |
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