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It is precisely these threats that led myself and Dr. Amy Cooter to co-found @icde.bsky.social this year. While the Terrorgram Collective may have fallen, the next threat is just beginning and we are determined to marshal all resources and stakeholders to get ahead of it.

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Terrorgram's Saints Culture, which created these attackers, will persist into the future & generate even more violent events. Even today, as you read this message, young impressionable boys & girls are being groomed into a cult of hatred and misanthropy and ultimately carry out their own attack.

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The militant accelerationism movement produces some of the most antisemitic and xenophobic propaganda materials ever produced. They have redefined how radicalization dynamics online occur, driving a trend defined by youth organizers (some as young as 13!), propaganda creators, and perpetrators.

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For years I have led the @arcglobal.bsky.social as our research fellows dug into the Terrorgram ecosystem & Terrorgram Collective. From Christchurch to Poway to Buffalo to Bratislava, many communities have been afflicted by militant accelerationism terror, which we have tracked and analyzed.

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The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram | FRONTLINE

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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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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Couldn't think of a better colleague and friend to run an organization with!

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

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

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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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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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Institute for Countering Digital Extremism | Every.org

And if you're following the news on US Federal grants being axed left and right, please take a moment to consider donating to our new organization! www.every.org/icde

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

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Institute for Countering Digital Extremism | Every.org

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

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Really sorry to hear this John.

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

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Excellent work from 3 ARC fellows!

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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Couldn’t agree more Craig! Which is why @amycooter.bsky.social and I co-founded @icde.bsky.social and www.counteringextremism.org this year. But that exact mission of combatting online harms and protecting society from digital-based terrorist threats is now at great risk with USG funding gone.

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The Institute for Countering Digital Extremism

ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.

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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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Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Key takeaways: - The nature of radicalization is changing - More online than ever before - Age is younger (13-18) - Racial & gender representation increasing in historically white male trend - 764 & TCC increasingly linked to perpetrators' radicalization - Misanthropy and nihilism overrepresented

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

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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 · 23/02/2025

It’s probably the preexisting fascist sympathies?

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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

Best start to a hockey game ever

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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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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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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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At least you get new nightmares. I swear I woke up on January 21 and 2016 was still happening

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

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

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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 · 08/02/2025

I’m already pitching it to Michael Moore

Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Yup! Angling for Anglin: An Elon Musk Story