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Pol is a political discussion board on 4chan. The board has been characterized as predominantly racist and sexist. Many of its posts take explicitly alt-right and neo-Nazi points of view. The Southern Poverty Law Center regards pol’s rhetorical style as widely emulated by white supremacist websites such as The Daily Stormer.

About Pol/ in brief

pol is a political discussion board on 4chan. Its intended purpose is the discussion of news, world events, political issues, and other related topics. The board has been characterized as predominantly racist and sexist. Many of its posts take explicitly alt-right and neo-Nazi points of view. The Southern Poverty Law Center regards pol’s rhetorical style as widely emulated by white supremacist websites such as The Daily Stormer. Many have speculated whether the website is kept online as a honeypot for far right groups or to monitor extremists.

In 2019, pol was temporarily blocked for containing videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings by internet service providers. According to a study, using a dataset of over 8M posts, pol is a diverse ecosystem with users well-distributed around the world. The percentage of posts containing hate speech ranges from 15% to 30%. Elevated use of hate speech is seen in Western European countries, with many threads that contain many calls for Jews to be killed. The number of posts that contain anti-Semitic comments ranges from 4% to 15%.