8chan creator Fred Brennan on the rise and fall of his website | 7.30

Governments around the world are clamping down on websites that turn a blind eye to extremist content. That push has won support from developer Fred Brennan who founded 8chan, a website that became a platform for neo-Nazis and mass killers and was linked to the Christchurch massacre.

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