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Institute for Countering Digital Extremism @icde.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

ICDE's Executive Director @mattkriner.bsky.social is testifying for the Crown today in the sentencing hearing for Atomwaffen's "Dark Foreigner." Follow @antihate.ca for updates.

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Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Such an important issue that many people still have never heard of. If you have kids in your life, please, please talk to them about best practices online. Help them understand signs of exploitation and manipulation, and let them know you're a safe landing space no matter what.

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I am deeply honored to have been part of AC Thompson and James Bandler's recent investigative reporting and the PBS Frontline documentary: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram. It is a crucial examination of a highly dangerous global terrorism movement. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

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The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram | FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate how an online network known as Terrorgram spread extremism and violence.

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you want to better understand why Amy and I co-founded ICDE, then this thread is worth your time. Promise.

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Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thrilled to announce my new position as Deputy Director (and cofounder!) of ICDE. More later!

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Also quite excited to announce that @arcglobal.bsky.social will permanently be housed out of @icde.bsky.social! Lots of big changes in the works. Stay tuned!

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

For weeks now terrorism researchers have anticipated this moment would come. Now that it's here it's almost impossible to over state the impact this will have on American, actually global, safety from terrorist violence. This only puts Americans and our allies (those we have left) at greater risk

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📢 I am beyond excited to announce that @amycooter.bsky.social and I have co-founded @icde.bsky.social 📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age. Follow us and learn more at www.counteringextremism.org

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Institute for Countering Digital Extremism | Every.org

A non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.

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Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Excellent work from 3 ARC fellows!

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Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Future lists of social and institutional steps on the pathway to genocide Must include organizations that analyze and fight extremism abandoning their mission and endorsing other steps on that list. It's stunning and disgusting and just plain painful, and not enough people are speaking out,

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Want to make your policy strategy more effective at the state and local level? Join @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social’s upcoming webinar: “State and Local Government Advocacy” on March 26 at 12pm PT/3pm ET to hear from an expert panel. Register here 👇: bit.ly/3XoWByf

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Join us for a webinar on state and local government advocacy. We'll begin with an overview of state and local government structures taught by Aspen Policy Academy staff, followed by a panel of experts...

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Anyone want to bet that no one looks at the email responses that Musk asked for ? It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone. If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This will be an indispensable resource

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It’s fascism. The Trump administration and its officials are engaging in fascist signaling. Bannon has long been on the cryptic fascism train. Why now? Because they know they won’t face repercussions for their true views.

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Correct. The only reasonable way to interpret this is through the lens of fascism

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Full price or discounted, you won’t regret making this purchase.

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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 13/02/2025

According to the court documents, Tinajero is a self-identified member of the 764 network. Jairo He pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy, online enticement, production and distribution of CSAM, and conspiracy to murder Jane Doe 1 in aid of racketeering. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/membe...

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Member of the 764 Criminal Enterprise Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy and Other Charges

Jairo Jaime Tinajero, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Western District of Kentucky to the following charges contained in the superseding information: racketeering conspiracy, online enticement, th...

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The body language here is phenomenally transparent. Both think they’re controlling the other but neither has a hand on the wheel

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Just three weeks ago Elon was standing behind another symbol of the Presidency doing a fascist salute… The assault on American democracy continues theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Imagine being a researcher or analyst of the far-right…

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 10/02/2025

Well, you've been hearing me bang on about it forever, but my dissertation is finally online. I will bookify it later, but for now you get it in the original Academese. A short thread on The Social Construction of Extremism. www.jmberger.com/extremism/th...

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I spoke with @davecantor.bsky.social at @vpm.org about the recent indictment of four CVLT leaders, a sextortion group that was the predecessor to 764. Whether its CVLT, 764, Terrorgram Collective or the entity not yet made, accelerationist networks rely on digital spaces to advance their harms.

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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 20/01/2025

Its not a fucking odd looking hand gesture, that was a Nazi Salute, a Seig Heil. Media has to do better, we have historical lessons we can pull from, rather than make the same mistakes of the past. Outlets and reporters cannot afford to be pushovers or brown nosers.

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Need an outlet for that Inauguration Day anxiety? Help us with a simple 10 question pre-research survey to understand how people think about a certain type of extremism!

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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾

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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Scottish Neo-Nazi propagandist Alan Edward jailed for 15 years after a raid uncovered a weapons cache. He also shared files on 3D-printed firearms and promoted the banned far-right group National Action online, inciting racial hatred. www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/crime/f...

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Falkirk Neo-Nazi with home 'armoury' jailed for terrorist offences

A Redding man who promoted a banned far-right Neo-Nazi group online and amassed an “armoury” at his home has been jailed for ten years.

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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 20/12/2024

The UK is facing a "smouldering" terror threat level with children as young as 10 accessing extreme online material, one of the country's most senior counter-terrorism officers has warned. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Threat against UK 'smouldering', top counter terror officer warns

There has been a rapid increase in the number of suspects radicalised on the internet, police say.

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Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Also a reminder that, if the govt shuts down, most military families will not be receiving paychecks at what is a particularly bad time for many folks

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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 19/12/2024

Today i am starting a 5 part series on the twenty five ideological and instructional manifestos of the Com Network I've collected thus far. In this first piece I examine the documents written by Yegor Krasnov, the founder of Maniacs Murder Cult (MKY) 1/ www.maargentino.com/part-1-knive...

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Knives Among the Shadows: The First Manifestos of the Maniacs Murder Cult Under Yegor Krasnov (Part I)

Introduction Over the past several months, I have collected 25 ideological, or attacker manifestos, or instructional materials from The Com Network and its adjacent groups. There is a fair amount of m...

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Arthur Bradley @abrad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Members of Werwolf Division, an Italian neo-Nazi group disrupted by police on 4 December, reportedly attempted to make contact with Hamas as part of an intention to mount anti-Semitic attacks. The group had also discussed assassinating Giorgia Meloni. It had a firearms training camp near Bologna

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L'ideologo, il concorrente di Bonolis, il tenore e tutti gli altri. Chi sono i "lupi mannari"

Dalle carte dell'inchiesta bolognese sulla Werwolf Division, la fotografia dell'ultradestra pronta ad attentare alla premier Meloni e a reclutare anche 14enni

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Sometimes the only way to get the writing juices flowing is to start your day with some fantasy and a good coffee #WindandTruth

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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Canadian neo-Nazi Pascal Tribout becomes the first person convicted under Canada’s new law for sharing 3D-printed firearm files. He pleaded guilty to promoting hatred and attempting to manufacture prohibited firearms. Crown seeks 5 years in prison. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...

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Coupable d’avoir partagé des plans d’armes 3D

Un internaute antisémite de Deux-Montagnes qui avait transformé son condo en usine de fabrication d’armes à feu est le premier Canadien déclaré coupable d’avoir possédé et partagé des fichiers informa...

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The Last Peter Smith @petersmith.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Nationalist 13 & the Toronto Fitness Club (a TO Active Club) got together to hold a ceremony and "awarded accolades" praising themselves for a protest last month. I have been to dozens, maybe hundreds, of protests. Never heard of them giving out participation trophies before.

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Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is all an excellent reminder that correlation does not equal causation (and that we usually need to think about reverse causation with such issues - i.e., art/games etc. usually reflect cultural things that are already present rather than creating them) --

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A perpetrator’s text preferences are always a good indicator of their ideological leanings. But if I have to start including the Lorax next to Evola in briefings for ideological drivers of targeted violence…

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I am so happy for the people of #Syria. They are finally released from the yoke of tyranny and free to chart their own course.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 05/12/2024

Most current definitions of extremism specifically exclude lawful or dominant movements. Working with the definition I put forward in "Extremism" (MIT Press, 2018), we argue that the academic field is meaningfully incomplete if we don't study dominant extremist movements.

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Richard Scutari, The Order’s head of security, who has been residing in a prerelease center in Orlando, Florida, since July 2024, will be released on Jan. 21 2025 after serving roughly 38 years for participating in the organization’s violent crimes

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Neo-Nazi Order member released from prison after radicalizing terrorist group

Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including antisemitic and racist rhetoric and descriptions of antisemitic violence. Reader discretion is advised.

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The Last Peter Smith @petersmith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The incomparable @sadarlo.bsky.social & my latest on the Maniac Murder Cult for GNET Research. "The purpose of MKY’s activities is to spread disorder & chaos with the purpose of building the org’s notoriety rather than clearly political or revolutionary ends." gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/b...

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Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult - GNET

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is absolutely the right takeaway from the RCMP & CSIS strategic assessment. Myself and researchers at @arcglobal.bsky.social have been beating this drum for quite some time, with some leaders of transnational accelerationist groups being as young as 13! rcmp.ca/en/corporate...

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Five-Eyes Insights – Young people and violent extremism: a call for collective action

On this page Overview Key issues The online environment Five-Eyes actions to understand the radicalisation of minors Raising awareness of the radicalisation of minors Enabling early intervention Case studies Conclusion

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