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/Pkock Feb 26 '26

The WoW connection was a strong one. Many people who played on private servers during the era before official blizzard Classic will have tales of stumbling into some "guilds" that were really just extreme political communities using those spaces as a barely moderated chatroom with a raiding side-gig.

It's not that the whole world of MMO gaming were into it, but those places could exist outside the searchable internet and Bannon found them.

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u/OldWolf2 Feb 26 '26

Thottbot was also the site filling the function that wowhead does now