White Supremacist Group That Used Telegram To Spread Hate Designated As Terrorist Organization


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The United States has recently blacklisted an online white supremacist group that used the social media platform Telegram to spread hateful propaganda and threats of racially-charged violence.

According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of State, the Terrorgram Collective, a group of angry white racists who congregate and organize on Telegram “is being designated for having committed or attempted to commit, posing a significant risk of committing or having participated in training to commit acts of terrorism that threaten the security of United States nationals or the national security, foreign policy of economy of the United States.”

While the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have determined that white supremacists currently represent America’s greatest domestic terrorist threat (to the dismay of MAGA conservatives who desperately want the Muslim world to carry that designation), it’s worth noting that people specifically named in the State Department’s statement are foreign nationals.

Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira of Brazil, Noah Licul of Croatia and Hedrik-Wahl Muller of South Africa, all leaders of the aptly named Terrorgram Collective, were individually listed as Specially Designated Global terrorists by the department. That being said, home-grown members of the Collective have also been charged with engaging in terrorist activities.

From United Press International:

With the designations, all property and interests in property of the collective as well as those named in the United States is blocked and Americans are barred from doing business with them. According to State Department officials, the terrorist designations expose and isolate those named from using the U.S. financial system.

In September, two U.S.-based leaders of the collective — Dallas Humber of California and Matthew Allison of Idaho — were charged in a 15-count indictment for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and soliciting hate crimes and the murder of federal officials.

According to the indictment, the pair spread online video and publications that provided what federal prosecutors described as “specific advice” for carrying out crimes and a hit list for assassinations.

One can only wonder if this means the State Department will, at long last, start paying closer attention to Telegram and other platforms like it that have proven to be digital gathering spaces for violent white supremacists. For example, Discord, which is essentially Telegram’s closest competition, is where Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron shared his plans to commit acts of violence against Black people, including and beyond the 10 Black people he gunned down at the Tops supermarket in 2022.

This is simply what white supremacy in the 21st Century looks like. It’s not all Klan rallies, cross burnings and in-person Skin Head gatherings anymore. Now, white supremacist propaganda and terrorism is only a click away.

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