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Poisonous picture board 4chan has managed to remain on-line for the previous seven years—amid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in a number of mass shootings, even because it was recognized as a supply of the conspiracy theories that impressed the January 6 rebellion—thanks, partly, to a $2.four million funding from a serious Japanese toy firm.
A partnership settlement, obtained solely by WIRED, reveals not solely how present website proprietor Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired the far-right message board but in addition how Japanese trade helped finance the deal.
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