Compared to the current number of hit pieces on Qanon, there are relatively few on 8kun since it's come online in Nov 2019. But this one came out today. It's worth reading because of how the authors try to focus as much attention as possible on 'right wing' domestic terrorist threats and platforms like 8kun said to promote them.
The Challenges of Effective Counterterrorism Intelligence in the 2020s
= Right-wing domestic terrorists are more dangerous than left-wing counterparts
Excerpts:
The terrorist threat is vastly different today than it was on 9/11. Social media has empowered extremist movements and terrorist groups to network and organize online, making it far easier for them both to recruit newcomers and to direct or inspire attacks. Violent far-right extremism has reemerged as a threat, inspiring a number of devastating attacks across the Western world targeting Jews, Christians and Muslims alike….
Extremist movements that have traditionally been focused on local issues are paradoxically growing increasingly international. Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the New Zealand mosque shootings in March 2019, was an Australian who had spent years traveling and meeting with like-minded extremists in Europe, prompting the Soufan Center, a leading international risk-assessment think tank, to deem his attack “possibly the first example of an act of terrorism committed by a white supremacist foreign fighter.” Tarrant’s attack was an extreme manifestation of what British academician Graham Macklin calls “the self-referential nature of extreme-right terrorism,” in which extremists often look to predecessors beyond their own borders for inspiration…..
The involvement of some military veterans in domestic extremism has also been demonstrated recently in anti-government “boogaloo” plots and violence responding to the nationwide protests against police brutality prompted by the death of George Floyd. In early June, three current or former service members—one Army, one Air Force and one Navy—were arrested in Las Vegas en route to a Black Lives Matter protest with Molotov cocktails and other explosives……
Far-right ideologies have catered to and sought to make common cause with other extremist milieus, in order to create new, more broad-based far-right networks. This is especially evident in the confluence of racist language demeaning both minority groups and women prevalent on extremist incel sites. Platforms like the imageboard site 8chan—removed following the 2019 El Paso shootings and then relaunched as 8kun—herald the convergence of the incel movement’s politicized misogyny with the far right’s strident diatribes about immigration and race….
https://www.lawfareblog.com/challenges-effective-counterterrorism-intelligence-2020s