The "artist" responsible for much of Atomwaffen Division's propaganda has been found guilty in Canada and may be in prison for a very long time:

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Patrick Gordon Macdonald, better known by his pseudonym Dark Foreigner, has been found guilty for participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and the commission of offence for a terrorist group.

The verdict was handed down by Justice R Smith in an Ottawa courtroom as Macdonald had elected to have a judge make the ruling rather than a jury.

Smith found that the videos had two purposes: to “recruit new members” and to “promote” the Atomwaffen Division.

The Crown requested that Macdonald be held without bail, while Macdonald’s defence indicated they expected the sentencing to be quite long, pointing that their client has been on bail for the duration of the trial. Justice Smith ruled that Macdonald could remain out of custody until a bail hearing could be held.

Macdonald was previously released on bail after being arrested in July 2023. He entered a plea of not guilty before the court. The maximum sentences for his charges include life in prison, but the Crown has not indicated how much time they intend to ask for.

https://www.antihate.ca/atomwaffen_division_propagandist_patrick_macdonald_found_guilty_on_all_charges

"“The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram” traces how various loosely-moderated platforms, from 4chan to 8chan to eventually Telegram, have become havens for extremist ideas and for radicalization. The investigation shows how a number of attackers around the world — from Slovakia to New Zealand to the United States — used these various platforms and were encouraged by them.

“Drawing on a trove of archived posts, our reporting shows how Telegram and other lightly regulated platforms became a gathering place for ‘militant accelerationists’ — neo-Nazis who want to use terror and violence to bring down governments and create new, white ethnostates,” says A.C. Thompson, who has been reporting on the evolution of violent extremism in the U.S. for years.

The film also probes how authorities in several countries would eventually arrest around a dozen people allegedly tied to the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational virtual network of extremists accused of inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism. The U.S. government would charge two Americans with a slew of felonies, including soliciting the murder of government officials on Telegram. Telegram says it has always screened postings for problematic content and that, “Calls for violence from any group are not tolerated on our platform.”"

The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram
https://youtu.be/l8nsgzwuc_o

#OutGroupHate #OutGroupHateOpera
#FWakeHateGroup #HateGroup
#FWakeFrontline /\ #FWakeOnline #FWakeIndoctrinated
#Terrorgram #FWakeCults #FWakeCultBehavior
#Frontline /\ #Terrorism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8nsgzwuc_o

PBS Frontline tonight is on #Terrorgram
Starting right now in many places.

Frontline and ProPublica have just released their in-depth investigation into Terrorgram. It's really well done and gets into both the background of how Terrorgram came to be in the first place and how its organizers groomed the teenager who eventually shot three people outside a queer bar in Bratislava, killing two of them. I recommend it for anyone who's interested in all of that. There are lots of details and illuminating observations throughout.

One warning, though: there is some rather violent footage early on, particularly from Unite the Right. I'm specifically kind of pissed that people *still* insist on showing the footage of the car attack, and without even any run-up -- just cutting straight to that moment, as though the world doesn't already know what happened, as though there were no living people whose lives were completely fucked up that day and may really suffer for seeing that yet again.

If that's an issue for you, maybe skip from around 7:00-8:10, and particularly right around the 8:00 mark. You won't be missing anything of value.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram/

A solid review of Brandon Russell's sordid career, from Atomwaffen Division to prison to Terrorgram and back to prison, with a particular focus on his trial for plotting to destroy the power grid around Baltimore. He was found guilty on Feb. 3, and is looking at up to 20 years for that; sentencing is scheduled for June 17.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/neo-nazi-network-terrorgram-court-planned-attack-substation/

The Rise and Fall of #Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online #Hate Network

https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram

fyi #terrorgram

https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram

"The Terrorgram story is part of a much larger 21st century phenomenon. Over the past two decades, massive social networks like X, Facebook and Telegram have emerged as a powerful force for both good and evil. The ability to connect with like-minded strangers helped fuel uprisings like the Arab Spring and Iran’s pro-democracy movements. But it has also aided extremists, including brutal jihadist organizations like the Islamic State group and white supremacists around the world.

Telegram, which is massively popular outside of the U.S., boasted an array of features that appealed to Humber and her fellow Terrorgammers. They could send encrypted direct messages, start big chat groups and create public channels to broadcast their messages. In the span of five years, they grew Terrorgram from a handful of accounts into a community with hundreds of chats and channels focused on recruiting would-be terrorists, sharing grisly videos and trading expertise on everything from assassination techniques to the best ways to sabotage water systems and electrical transmission lines. On one of her many accounts, Humber posted step-by-step instructions for making pipe bombs and synthesizing HMTD, a potent explosive.

Humber went by a series of usernames but was eventually publicly exposed by a group of California activists. ProPublica and FRONTLINE reviewed chat logs — some provided by the Australian anti-facist research organization The White Rose Society — court records and Humber’s other digital accounts to independently confirm her identity."

https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram

How the #Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill – #terror
Extremist Influencers: Neo-Nazi influencers on the social media platform Telegram created a network of chats and channels where they stoked racist, antisemitic and homophobic hate. Targeted Teen: The influencers, known as the Terrorgram Collective, targeted a teen in Slovakia and groomed him for three years to kill.
https://dokmz.com/2025/03/09/how-the-terrorgram-collectives-neo-nazi-influencers-groomed-a-teen-to-kill-terror/

‘The Hard Reset’: Here’s how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world – #terror
A U.S. leader of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network known as the #Terrorgram Collective directly communicated with a 16-year-old who killed four people in a school shooting spree that took place in Brazil in 2022. The link was disclosed for the first time in a filing last month by federal prosecutors opposing bail review for Matthew Robert Allison, one of two Terrorgram leaders
https://dokmz.com/2025/03/09/the-hard-reset-heres-how-the-u-s-is-exporting-terrorism-around-the-world-terror/

Good, close-up look at Terrorgram's accelerationist grooming process, using the kid who attacked an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2022 as a kind of case study. (Apparently the authors of this article have been working on a Frontline doc about this stuff that will be out in a couple of weeks.) Worth reading.

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And so in August 2019, Juraj Krajčík, then a soft-faced 16-year-old with a dense pile of brown hair, immersed himself in a loose collection of extremist chat groups and channels on the massive social media and messaging platform Telegram. This online community, which was dubbed Terrorgram, had a singular focus: inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism.

Over the next three years, Krajčík made hundreds — possibly thousands — of posts in Terrorgram chats and channels, where a handful of influential content creators steered the conversation toward violence. Day after day, post after post, these influencers cultivated Krajčík, who lived with his family in a comfortable apartment in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. They reinforced his hatreds, fine-tuned his beliefs and fed him tips, encouraging him to attack gay and Jewish people and political leaders and become, in their parlance, a “saint.”

On Oct. 12, 2022, Krajčík, armed with his father’s .45-caliber handgun, opened fire on three people sitting outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, killing two and wounding the third before fleeing the scene.

https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate

#Terrorgram: #Australia hits online neo-Nazi network with sanctions
The Australian government has imposed counterterrorism financing sanctions on Terrorgram, a decentralised online network that promotes white supremacy and racially motivated violence. It's the first time Australia has imposed counterterrorism financing sanctions on an entirely online-based entity.
https://dokmz.com/2025/02/02/terrorgram-australia-hits-online-neo-nazi-network-with-sanctions/

#Terrorist Designations of The #Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders
The United States remains deeply concerned about the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) threat worldwide and committed to countering transnational components of violent white supremacism. Department of State is designating The Terrorgram Collective (Terrorgram) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Terrorgram is a transnational terrorist group
https://dokmz.com/2025/01/14/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/

The US State Department has just designated Terrorgram and three of its leaders as "Global Terrorists". It seems unlikely to change much, but it may complicate the lives of those leaders a little bit.

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Today, the Department of State is designating The Terrorgram Collective (Terrorgram) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.

- Terrorgram is a transnational terrorist group that primarily operates on the social media and digital messaging platform Telegram. The group promotes violent white supremacism, solicits attacks on perceived adversaries, and provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including on critical infrastructure and government officials. The group also glorifies those who have conducted such attacks.

- Attacks or attempted attacks by Terrorgram users motivated and facilitated by the group include an October 2022 shooting outside an LGBTQI+ bar in Slovakia; a July 2024 planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey; and an August 2024 knife attack at a mosque in Türkiye. In September 2024, DOJ charged two U.S. Terrorgram leaders with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

https://www.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders

Woman gets 18 years for neo-Nazi plot to shoot up Md. power stations – #terrorgram
Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, remains a threat to public safety, said U.S. District Judge James Bredar. A 36-year-old Maryland woman was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for conspiring to shoot up power substations around Baltimore as part of a white-supremacist-inspired plot to sow societal chaos
https://dokmz.com/2024/09/29/woman-gets-18-years-for-neo-nazi-plot-to-shoot-up-md-power-stations-terrorgram/