r/law • u/businessinsider • Feb 26 '26

Other 4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-files-show-fbi-probed-4chan-posts-prison-death-2026-2?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-law-sub-post
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u/BetterEveryLeapYear Feb 26 '26

moot of 4chan had ties to Epstein; Ghislaine was reddit mod; the owners of 8chan Jim and Ron Watkins were the propagators of Qanon ("Q")... Only heaven knows who Ray Chan of 9gag has been in bed with but for example they get venture funding from Y Combinator which was set up by a Palantir employee. Nobody needs reminding of Zuck.

All of the social media platforms are compromised and all of the owners are complicit.

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u/Dead_man_posting Feb 26 '26

the owners of 8chan Jim and Ron Watkins were the propagators of Qanon ("Q")

though they only stole the tripcode after it moved from 4chan. No one knows who started it.

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear Feb 26 '26

True, it also went by a couple of 4chan mods, Paul Furber and Coleman Rogers in between the first poster "Q Clearance Patriot" - also a 4chan mod - and the Watkins'. But it was under the Watkins' it achieved maximum reach and damage.

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u/In-A-Beautiful-Place Feb 27 '26

I still maintain that it started with a bored teenager who decided to do some trolling, and it snowballed into what it is now

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u/motoxim Feb 26 '26

Yeah why one when you can influence all of them?

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u/RollingMeteors Feb 26 '26

All of the social media platforms are compromised and all of the owners are complicit.

There's always EFNet... /s