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    'A perfect platform': internet's abyss becomes a far-right breeding ground

    After Christchurch, many are asking what role the ‘darkest reaches of the internet’ play in radicalisation
    by Christopher Knaus Mar 19, 2019 4 minutes
    Studies suggest far-right online forums are growing in number, giving a bigger platform to violent, racist messaging. Photograph: Artur Debat/Getty Images

    No depth goes unplumbed on the far-right forum 8chan. Its threads reveal a seething, toxic mass of rabid antisemitism, neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, gratuitous violence, coded inside jokes and conspiratorial ravings published by anonymous users.

    Nothing has changed in the days after the Australian alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant, 28, came to 8chan boasting of the imminent massacre in Christchurch. Posts have since praised Tarrant as a “hero” and called for copycat attacks, or, alternatively, denounced him as a pawn in a false flag conspiracy.

    8chan, which describes itself as the “darkest reaches of the internet”, is just one of a series of online forums populated by the extremist right. Studies in, giving a bigger platform to violent, racist messaging.

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