“Well lads, it’s time to stop shitposting and time to make a real life effort post … by the time you read this I should be going live,” the 8chan post reads. But what is 8chan and why did the killer choose this platform to announce himself? ThreadsBased on labyrinthine and anonymous comment threads, 8chan was founded by Fredrick Brennan, a user of similar site 4chan, in the fall of 2013. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, where users who post hate speech are often banned, 4chan and — to an even more extreme degree — 8chan are very light on moderation. The manifesto said the shooter was motivated by “white genocide,” a term white supremacists use to describe immigration and the growth of minority populations.

Source: National Post March 15, 2019 18:10 UTC