- Over the weekend, $4 and more than two dozen others were injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
- A manifesto said to be from the suspected shooter appeared beforehand an $4, which is owned and operated by Jim Watkins and his company, NT Technology. $4 as of Monday.
- Watkins is an American expatriate who now lives in the Philippines where he owns a pig farm in addition to operating 8chan.
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The man who owns and operates one of the most notorious corners of the internet once described himself as $4
He is anything but - Jim Watkins is the owner and operator of 8chan, $4.
In 2019, that dedication to free speech included three manifestos published on 8chan that were suspected to have been written by mass shooters. As of Monday morning, $4 and doesn't appear to be coming back anytime soon.
Here's what we know about Jim Watkins, the middle-aged man who farms pigs in the Philippines and operates 8chan.