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Article snippet: Services that enable 8chan to stay online are facing unprecedented public scrutiny after the anonymous messaging board seen as a breeding ground for white extremism was implicated in its third mass shooting this year. Throughout the day on Monday, multiple services that were vital for keeping 8chan afloat severed ties or sought to distance themselves in the wake of the El Paso shooting, which left 22 dead and dozens more injured. The 21-year-old suspect in the Texas attack allegedly posted an anti-immigrant manifesto on 8chan 20 minutes before massacring innocent shoppers at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border. 8chan's future is at risk after the platform lost support from a series of companies that made up its web infrastructure on Monday. And policymakers are ramping up their calls for action against similar sites linked to real-world violence. MORE and former President Obama both pointed to online radicalization as a key factor in the El Paso shooting, which the suspect called a “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” in the manifesto he allegedly wrote. The document echoed similar anti-immigrant screeds that were posted online before mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand and Poway, Calif., this year. “We must recognize that the internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts,” Trump said in remarks on Monday morning. “We must shine light on the dark recesses of the Internet and stop mass murders b... Link to the full article to read more