mattkriner.bsky.social
Militant Accelerationism. Radicalization. Digital Extremism. Trust & Safety.
Executive Director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE) and Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC)
www.counteringextremism.org
www.accresearch.org
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If you want to learn more, visit www.counteringextremism.org and consider donating!
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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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Couldn't think of a better colleague and friend to run an organization with!
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Thanks, Paul!
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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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Really sorry to hear this John.
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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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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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It’s probably the preexisting fascist sympathies?
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Best start to a hockey game ever
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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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I’m already pitching it to Michael Moore
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Yup!
Angling for Anglin: An Elon Musk Story
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As I stated in the article, we're past the point of no return with digital technologies and platforms providing the ability for novel threats to emerge and occur.
The challenge now is how we limit it occurring at scale. And that starts with prosecuting those at the top of these groups.
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It’s time for folks to awaken to the reality that it WASNT a dab