The Dutch town of Leiden shut down over 20 of its schools on Monday and one arrest has been made — all because of a threat posted to 4chan. Yes, international police forces are on to the Internet's most notorious message boards. You know, as part of regular "Internet checks."
Belieber fans, stop what you're doing right now and just place those clippers right on the table. No one is shaving their heads for Justin Bieber (sorry!). And news outlets, don't you go feed the fire, either.
The Horace Mann School for the Deaf garnered thousands of Internet votes to win an online contest promising a Taylor Swift concert on campus—thousands of votes which were thrown out because the contest's sponsors didn't like that 4chan and Reddit were involved.
The State Department's latest counterterrorism effort is apparently an Internet trolling (no, we're not kidding) initiative called Viral Peace. From whom should the government learn to troll?
Has the social network made a mistake by deleting pseudonymous profiles en masse?
His new imageboard site claims to be "work safe" but it's far from it
In a Vanity Fair interview, Gregg Housh says FBI raids don't scare him
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