The 4chan website is not loading for many users, according to Downdetector, amid unconfirmed reports on social media of a hack against the internet message board. Hundreds of 4chan users have ...

It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.

4chan, founded in 2003, was originally built as an anonymous hub for internet communities. Over time, it became a well-known source of internet memes, trolling, and extreme political rhetoric.

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 ...

Toxic image board 4chan has managed to stay online for the past seven years—amid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in several mass shootings, even as it was identified as a ...

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.

4chan was where I learned that the internet could be bad. I first encountered the site during high school, not long after its founding, in 2003, by an American teen-ager named Christopher Poole ...

4Chan was like the original TikTok, and it spawned QAnon as a goof. What ruled it all was the lust for eyeballs. But “The Antisocial Network” takes us back to before all that, to what QAnon ...

Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was a major investor in 4chan. Good Smile, ... it’s more difficult to ascribe any kind of American political ambition to 4chan's owner.