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 ...

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.

Nearly a week after a major hack forced it offline, the notorious imageboard 4chan remains inaccessible, and there's a growing feeling that it's going to stay that way—and that maybe it's not so ...

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.

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 ...