How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill
www.propublica.org
The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.
  • 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.
  • Terrorgram Network: Juraj Krajčík subscribed to at least 49 extremist Telegram chats and channels, many of them nodes in the Terrorgram network, before he killed two people at an LGBTQ+ bar.
  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    24·
    22 hours ago

    These people didn’t go away. Some of them are even probably here on Lemmy, watching for anyone with a weakness they can exploit to try to recruit them.

    A bunch of them were arrested, but a bunch of them weren’t. Stay vigilant. Don’t tolerate these kinds of people.

  • starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.mlEnglish
    36·
    14 hours ago

    If only parents could monitor their teens use of technology. Oh wait they can and should. Funny all the small government people shouting about showing and verifying government ids and won’t someone think of the children.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      12 hours ago

      oh wait they can

      Oh c’mon. Unless you’re going to spend 100% of your time following your kids around, you won’t know half the shit they do.

      Source: I was a kid and did shit.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Unless you build trust with the kid. So that if the child is having disturbing thoughts, you’d be the first person they’d find unconditional help from, and that in really bad cases - you’d help arranging professional therapy for them.

        Source: worked on me.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          11 hours ago

          Tell me you’re not a parent without telling me you’re not a parent.

          I WANT to live in the fantasy world you’re describing. But literally no one could have both kids and a job and be able to do what you say.

          And no, I don’t remember not seeing violence on TV. I grew up in the 80s.