US has listed the white supremacist Terrorgram network as a ‘terrorist group’. far right news
Authorities say the network, which largely operates on Telegram, is linked to a series of violent attacks.
United States authorities have banned an online network called Terrorgram Collective, declaring it a “terrorist group” for promoting violent white supremacy around the world.
The State Department said in a statement on Monday that it had designated the group, which operates primarily on the Telegram social media site, and three of its leaders as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
The State Department reported, “The group promotes violent white supremacy, urges attacks on perceived opponents, and provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and goals.”
“The group also glorifies those who have carried out such attacks.”
The State Department accused the group of inciting attacks and attempted violence, including a 2022 shooting outside an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia, a planned 2024 attack on energy facilities in New Jersey and a knife attack at a mosque in Turkiye in August. Assault is involved.
“The United States is deeply concerned about the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) threat around the world and is committed to countering the international components of violent white supremacism,” the department said.
This designation freezes any US-based assets held by the group and prevents Americans from conducting financial transactions with sanctioned assets.
The three individuals banned on Monday are alleged leaders of the Terrorgram channel: Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira from Brazil, Noah Likul from Croatia and Hendrik-Wah Muller from South Africa.
In September, US authorities arrested two Americans whom they identified as leaders of the group: Dallas Erin Humber of California and Matthew Robert Ellison of Idaho.
Authorities charged him with leading an “international terrorist group” as well as distributing bomb-making instructions, conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, and soliciting hate crimes and the assassination of federal officials.
Hannah Guess, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, has written about Terrorgram for years.
The online group has become “the center of an increasingly decentralized wing of the white power movement,” he wrote in an analysis after the 2024 arrests.
“Its members discouraged others from joining IRL (in real life) groups,” he said in a separate post on social media.
According to Guess, Terrorgram’s purpose was to emphasize “accelerationism” as an alternative political path to furthering its beliefs.
Guess wrote, “White power accelerationists seek to initiate the collapse of the so-called anti-white ‘system’ through violence and other means, including attacks on infrastructure, with the hope that doing so will usher in a National Socialist state. “
