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| 2016 || Early year || Controversy || Microsoft releases its artificial intelligence {{w|chatterbot}} [[w:Tay (bot)|Tay]] on {{w|Twitter}}. Being able to learn from the world via the accounts that tweeted at it, Tay would turn offensive and racist in less that 24 hors, after 8chan, along with 4chan users, are mobilized to send offensive messages to the AI bot, which would be shut down.<ref name="What is 8chan, the internet"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Who turned Microsoft's chatbot racist? Surprise, it was 4chan and 8chan |url=https://splinternews.com/who-turned-microsofts-chatbot-racist-surprise-it-was-1793855848 |website=splinternews.com |accessdate=8 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || June 22 || Controversy || The image of {{w|Hillary Clinton}} is posted on {{w|8chan}}, with a background of money and a six-pointed star, seen by some as resembling the {{w|Star of David}}, containing the message "Most corrupt candidate ever". Aweek A week later, United States presidential candidate {{w|Donald Trump}} would post the same inage image on {{w|Tweeter}}.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wendling |first=Mike |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37021991|title=Trump's shock troops: Who are the 'alt-right'? |work=BBC News |date=August 26, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || October || Controversy || 8chan users compile lists of journalists, then tweet out photos of the journalists with red Xs over their faces. Around this time, during the [[w:US Presidential Election 2016|2016 presidential election]], many alt right activists target journalists, especially Jewish journalists, with anti-Semitic harassment.<ref name="The Hate and Violence-Filled Legacy of 8chan"/>
