Inside the dark web scramble to get far-right conspiracy site 8chan back online

Even before 8chan, the anonymous message board, went dark early on Monday, the scramble to keep the site online had begun.

The message board, which had hosted the anti-immigrant manifesto of the man accused of the El Paso, Texas, shooting and the hateful messages of other attackers, had gone down after Cloudflare, a security company, decided it would no longer provide it with its services.

That left 8chan vulnerable to cyberattacks that could knock it offline.