Notorious internet forum 4chan was hacked on Tuesday. At the time of writing, 4chan’s website was not loading, and users on social media reported the site being intermittently down for hours.

Update 1:25 pm ET, April 4, 2023: While Liz Rodwell received her PhD from Rice University, she is an assistant professor at the University of Houston. We've updated the story to reflect this.

Those documents show how 4chan’s team of moderators—janitors, in their own nomenclature—manage the site. Internal emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site’s janitors ...

According to multiple posts, 4Chan’s servers were running on FreeBSD 10.1 – an operating system version that hasn’t been officially supported since 2016 – along with outdated PHP code and ...

The QAnon conspiracy quickly spiraled out of control. Any anonymous 4chan user could claim to be “Q,” and they did. They were happy to troll gullible people, as they’d been doing since 2003.

While much is still unknown, 4chan is down as of April 15 and has been reportedly hacked as well. Digital Culture Tech Science Life Social Good Entertainment Deals Shopping Games. Search.

4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack. Per Downdetector, reports of an outage began circulating late Monday ...

My earliest memory of 4chan was sitting up late at night, typing its URL into my browser, and scrolling through a thread of LOLcat memes, which were brand-new at the time. Back then a photoshop of ...

The LINK Marines relentlessly promoted Chainlink on 4chan and social media platforms, and by 2020, LINK had experienced its first major rally — from $1.80 at the start of the year to a high of ...