/pol/

/pol/
/pol/ - Politically Incorrect
Type of site
4chan imageboard
Available inEnglish
OwnerHiroyuki Nishimura
Founder(s)Christopher "moot" Poole[1]
Key peopleRapeApe[2]
URL4chan.org/pol/ Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedOctober 23, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-23)
Current statusOnline
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/pol/, short for Politically Incorrect,[3][4] is an anonymous political discussion imageboard on 4chan.[5][6][7] As of 2022, it is the most active board on the site.[8][9][10] It has had a substantial impact on Internet culture. It has acted as a platform for far-right extremism;[11][12][10] the board is notable for its widespread racist, white supremacist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, misogynist, and anti-LGBT content.[24] /pol/ has been linked to various acts of real-world extremist violence.[10][25][26] It has been described as one of the "[centers] of 4chan mobilization", a title also ascribed to /b/.[22]

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  3. ^ Papasavva, Antonis; Zannettou, Savvas; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Blackburn, Jeremy (2020). "Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 14. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: 885–894. arXiv:2001.07487. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7354. ISSN 2334-0770.
  4. ^ a b c d Vincent, James (8 June 2022). "YouTuber trains AI bot on 4chan's pile o' bile with entirely predictable results". The Verge. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
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  6. ^ a b Baele, Stephane J.; Brace, Lewys; Coan, Travis G. (2021). "Variations on a Theme? Comparing 4chan, 8kun, and Other chans' Far-Right '/pol' Boards". Perspectives on Terrorism. 15 (1): 65–80. ISSN 2334-3745. JSTOR 26984798.
  7. ^ a b c Elley, Ben (March 2021). "'The rebirth of the West begins with you!'—Self-improvement as radicalisation on 4chan". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 8 (1). Springer Nature: 67. doi:10.1057/s41599-021-00732-x. ISSN 2662-9992.
  8. ^ Hagen, Sal; Jokubauskaitė, Emilija (18 January 2021). "Dutch junk news on Reddit and 4chan/pol". The Politics of Social Media Manipulation. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 174, 180, 188, 202–203, 207. doi:10.1515/9789048551675-007. ISBN 978-90-485-5167-5.
  9. ^ Macaulay, Thomas (8 June 2022). "An AI chatbot trained on 4chan has sparked outrage and fascination". TNW. The Financial Times. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  10. ^ a b c Tuters, Marc; Hagen, Sal (2021). "Us and (((Them))): Extreme Memes and Antisemitism on 4chan". Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech. Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, Peter Hervik. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-05925-3. OCLC 1267403418. [/pol/] was connected to various acts of extreme violence (Hankes and Amend 2018)...
  11. ^ a b c d Corsi, Giulio (9 July 2021). "Climate change communication on 4chan's /pol/ board 2015-2019: An automated content analysis". First Monday. 26 (8). doi:10.5210/fm.v26i8.11082. ISSN 1396-0466.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Colley, Thomas; Moore, Martin (1 January 2022). "The challenges of studying 4chan and the Alt-Right: 'Come on in the water's fine'". New Media & Society. 24 (1): 5–30. doi:10.1177/1461444820948803. ISSN 1461-4448.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hine-2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Siegel-DailyBeast-2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  21. ^ Krafft, P. M.; Donovan, Joan (3 March 2020). "Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign". Political Communication. 37 (2): 194–214. doi:10.1080/10584609.2019.1686094. ISSN 1058-4609.
  22. ^ a b Beyer, Jessica L. (10 November 2021), Rohlinger, Deana A.; Sobieraj, Sarah (eds.), "Trolls and Hacktivists: Political Mobilization from Online Communities", The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.47, ISBN 978-0-19-751063-6, retrieved 22 May 2022
  23. ^ Milton, Josh (8 March 2021). "Super straight: Transphobic trend has links to the far-right". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  24. ^ The board has been noted for widespread[11] content that is:
  25. ^ Zhang, Xinyi; Davis, Mark (7 June 2022). "E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right". New Media & Society. 26 (5): 2954–2970. doi:10.1177/14614448221098360. ISSN 1461-4448. S2CID 249482748. 4chan and 8kun's 'politically incorrect' (/pol/) boards have become a major source of inspiration for (self-)radicalization towards violent extremism and terrorism ...
  26. ^ Zahrah, Fatima; Nurse, Jason R. C.; Goldsmith, Michael (25 April 2022). "A comparison of online hate on reddit and 4chan". Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC '22. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1797–1800. arXiv:2202.01302. doi:10.1145/3477314.3507226. ISBN 978-1-4503-8713-2. S2CID 246485533. Retrieved 16 July 2022. [T]he Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, which has also been associated with spreading online hate, and has even been linked to violent acts of extremism...