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  1. iowa caucuses
    Iowa Dems: Pro-Trump Trolls Clogged Phones Lines, Worsening Caucus DebacleA hotline to report caucus results was tied up, at least in part, by pranksters from 4Chan.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  2. life in pixels
    Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?Andrew Yang’s climate fatalism during Wednesday’s debate seemed to reflect a strange, esoteric nihilism taking root in the internet’s weirder corners.
    By Max Read
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    Posts Indicate Suspect in Toronto Attack Was Radicalized on 4chanAlek Minassian seems to have spent a lot of time on 4chan.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Saga of Quinn Norton’s 7-Hour Times Career, ExplainedHow a tech activist was undone by her online footprint.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only WorseA new conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has taken the grimiest parts of the internet by, well, storm.
    By Paris Martineau
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    4channers Are Eating Onions to Be More ManlySoy Boys, Onion Lads, and 4chan’s never-ending quest for testosterone.
    By Paris Martineau
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    The Vicious Circle of 4chan’s Mass-Shooting HoaxesWhen identifying hoaxes also amplifies them.
    By Brian Feldman
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    4chan Isn’t Dealing So Well With Steve Bannon’s White House ResignationRedditors, too.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    The Woman Targeted by Gamergate on Surviving a World-Altering Trolling AttackZoë Quinn spent much of her life playing and designing games. Then she found herself inside one – a vicious, multiplayer real-time harassment bonanza.
    By Noreen Malone
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    Where Did the Alt-Right Come From? This Book Finds Some Uncomfortable AnswersAngela Nagle’s Kill All Normies is among the best examinations of the origins of the alt-right.
    By Park MacDougald
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    Dubious Macron Leaks Linked to Infamous Neo-Nazi Hacker-Troll WeevThe faked records came from a server that also hosts a white-supremacist website.
    By Brian Feldman
  12. 4chan Is in Dire StraitsThe site’s owner desperately needs to cut costs or up revenue.
    By Brian Feldman
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    How Internet Trolls Won the 2016 Presidential ElectionThe media don’t understand chan culture, and that’s made it easy for the channers to have a surprisingly easy time manipulating everyone.
    By Jesse Singal
  14. 4chan Isn’t Sure Whether It’s Excited the Times Wrote Up Its Anti-Semitism“REEEE shut it down! The normies know!”
    By Jesse Singal
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    Moot Works for Google NowA slightly unexpected development.
    By Brian Feldman
  16. The Email Threat to L.A. Schools Came From This Penis-Themed Mail ServiceThe threat that shut 1,000 schools came from a cock.li address.
    By Jay Hathaway
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    Inside /pol/, the 4chan Politics Board Shouted Out in Minneapolis Gun Video“Politically incorrect” is an understatement.
    By Brian Feldman
  18. Two Suspects Arrested in Connection With Black Lives Matter ShootingDays before the shooting in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter posted a video of two masked men bringing a gun to their protest site. 
    By Eric Levitz
  19. Did You Know You Can Pay Indian Kids $5 to Yell Out Memes?Internet culture is globalized, but it’s still horrible.
    By Ben Ellman
  20. leap second
    Leap Second Gave the Internet a Really Bad HeadacheIt knocked out a dozen or so major websites.
    By Andre Tartar
  21. internet
    Crime Scene Pics Turn Up on 4ChanAn officer under investigation says it wasn’t her.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  22. internet
    4Chan-Based ‘Bronies’ Continue Their Media TakeoverTeenage dudes who love ‘My Little Pony’ for real! Sort of.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  23. post-modern love
    One of the Forever-Alone Singles 4Chan Lured to Times Square Is Actually Rather DashingHis name is Keats and he wears a fedora.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  24. please don’t hurt us
    4chan Using Fake OkCupid Profiles to Lure Pathetic Singles to Times SquareLike “forever alones” didn’t have it bad enough.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  25. the future is coming
    The Boy Genius Behind 4Chan Launches His Next Start-UpLet the meme-making begin!
    By Nitasha Tiku
  26. secrets secrets are no fun
    WikiLeaks-Style Info Dump on Gawker Coming?That’s what has staffers worried.
    By Chris Rovzar
  27. gawker
    FBI Investigating Gawker Hack“The kind of attention we got — which spiked Gawker.com traffic — is the kind we can do without,” said Denton.
    By Mike Vilensky
  28. blog-stained wretches
    The Aftermath of the Gawker Hack [Updated]Nick Denton has something on his face.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  29. gawker
    Gawker Hacked, Private User Information Possibly Stolen [Updated]“Our user databases appear to have been compromised.”
    By Mike Vilensky
  30. loose lips
    Who Are Those ‘Anonymous’ WikiLeak Hacktivists?Turning up the veil on Operation Payback.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  31. loose lips
    Hackers Take Down Mastercard in Revenge for Blocking WikiLeaksPayPal, Visa, and Amazon … get ready for “Operation Payback.”
    By Nitasha Tiku
  32. the internet’s seedy underworld
    Gawker and 4Chan Are at WarGawker had called out the Internet community for picking on a little girl.
    By Dan Amira