8chan owner called before Congress as latest host drops site

The House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee demanded that owner Jim Watkins, an American living in the Philippines, testify about 8chan’s efforts to tackle “the proliferation of extremist content, including white supremacist content.”

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The committee’s Democratic chairman, Bennie Thompson, and Mike Rogers, its ranking Republican, sent a letter https://tmsnrt.rs/2YuWNQ7 to Watkins to appear, calling the El Paso massacre “at least the third act of supremacist violence linked to your website this year.”

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