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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tucker-carlson-4-chan-hunter-biden-icloud-hack-1381222/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epznqz/hunter-biden-leak-4chan-tucker-carlson
Days after a 4chan user claimed to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud backup account, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves Monday evening to bestow subtle praise upon the notorious online forum — which has long been a breeding ground for hate speech and has inspired (and lavished praised upon) several mass shootings.
Bemoaning the tech companies who, in previous years, have removed contents of Hunter Biden’s 2020 laptop leak from the internet, Carlson informed his users that the newest leak spread quickly on 4chan, calling the anonymous forum “some sort of website that’s basically not very moderated, and it’s kinda the website of last resort for people who want to get information out there but can’t, because everything is so completely censored at this point.” (4chan moderators did eventually delete the Biden iCloud leak data — but not before it was archived and disseminated on torrent sites.)
While the Fox News host only briefly touched upon 4chan’s existence, labeling it as a “website of last resort for people who want to get information out there but can’t” is exactly the sort of right-wing dogwhistle intended to funnel the network’s viewers into 4chan’s murky depths. With a namedrop of this magnitude, it’s only a matter of time before your Boomer-aged aunt who still shares anti-Hillary Clinton memes on Facebook wanders into the shitposting cesspool that is /pol/, 4chan’s political forum.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epznqz/hunter-biden-leak-4chan-tucker-carlson
Days after a 4chan user claimed to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud backup account, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves Monday evening to bestow subtle praise upon the notorious online forum — which has long been a breeding ground for hate speech and has inspired (and lavished praised upon) several mass shootings.
Bemoaning the tech companies who, in previous years, have removed contents of Hunter Biden’s 2020 laptop leak from the internet, Carlson informed his users that the newest leak spread quickly on 4chan, calling the anonymous forum “some sort of website that’s basically not very moderated, and it’s kinda the website of last resort for people who want to get information out there but can’t, because everything is so completely censored at this point.” (4chan moderators did eventually delete the Biden iCloud leak data — but not before it was archived and disseminated on torrent sites.)
While the Fox News host only briefly touched upon 4chan’s existence, labeling it as a “website of last resort for people who want to get information out there but can’t” is exactly the sort of right-wing dogwhistle intended to funnel the network’s viewers into 4chan’s murky depths. With a namedrop of this magnitude, it’s only a matter of time before your Boomer-aged aunt who still shares anti-Hillary Clinton memes on Facebook wanders into the shitposting cesspool that is /pol/, 4chan’s political forum.
