How a Global Online Network of White Supremacists 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.
  • starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.mlEnglish
    05·
    1 day 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·
      1 day 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.