If you use Wikipedia on any kind of regular basis, you've seen the banner: "A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales," accompanied by the ponderous mug of Wales himself, staring ...

4chan was hacked by users from Soyjak.Party, leaking janitor emails, restoring the long-dead /qa/ board, and exposing the site's creaky old codebase.

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of ...

While the poll-rigging pranksters from 4chan’s imageboard /b/ failed at having whistleblower Edward Snowden win Time’s Person of the Year, they had their way with Know Your Meme’s Favorite ...

4chan’s /pol/ boards have, for much of the 2016 campaign, felt like an alternate reality, one where a Donald Trump presidency was not only possible but inevitable. At some point Tuesday evening ...

Hackers from /pol/ claimed responsibility on 4chan for breaking into a billboard in the heart of Cardiff's busy shopping district and using it to broadcast swastikas, images about Islam, a Big Brother ...

On 4chan's tenth birthday, Jamie Bartlett explores the role of anonymity on the web, specifically how it's used on the bulletin board that's described as both a meme factory and the "asshole of ...

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 ...

4chan’s /pol/ boards have, for much of the 2016 campaign, felt like an alternate reality, one where a Trump presidency was not only possible but inevitable. At some point on Tuesday evening, … ...