US lists white supremacist Terrorgram community as ‘terrorist group’
The community, which largely operates on Telegram, has been linked to a sequence of violent assaults, officers say.
United States officers have imposed sanctions on a web-based community referred to as the Terrorgram Collective, designating it a “terrorist group” over its promotion of violent white supremacy all over the world.
The Division of State mentioned in an announcement on Monday that it had designated the group, which primarily operates on the Telegram social media website, and three of its leaders as “specifically designated world terrorists”.
“The group promotes violent white supremacism, solicits assaults on perceived adversaries, and gives steering and educational supplies on techniques, strategies, and targets,” the State Division defined.
“The group additionally glorifies those that have performed such assaults.”
The State Division accused the group of facilitating assaults and tried violence, together with a 2022 taking pictures outdoors an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia, a deliberate assault in 2024 on power amenities in New Jersey and an August knife assault at a mosque in Turkiye.
“The US stays deeply involved concerning the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) risk worldwide and dedicated to countering transnational elements of violent white supremacism,” the division mentioned.
The designation freezes any US-based belongings held by the group and bars People from having monetary dealings with these sanctioned.
The three people sanctioned on Monday are alleged leaders on the Terrorgram channel: Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira from Brazil, Noah Licul from Croatia and Hendrik-Wahl Muller from South Africa.
In September, US officers arrested two People additionally they recognized as leaders of the group: Dallas Erin Humber of California and Matthew Robert Allison of Idaho.
Officers charged them with main a “transnational terrorist group” in addition to with distributing bomb-making directions, conspiring to supply materials help to terrorists, and soliciting hate crimes and the homicide of federal officers.
Hannah Gais, a senior analysis analyst with the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart, has written about Terrorgram for years.
She wrote in an evaluation after the 2024 arrests that the web group has grow to be “a hub for an more and more decentralized wing of the white energy motion”.
“Its members tended to dissuade others from becoming a member of IRL [in real life] teams,” she defined in a separate put up on social media.
Terrorgram’s purpose was to push for “accelerationism” as an alternative choice to political avenues for advancing their beliefs, based on Gais.
“White energy accelerationists search to usher within the collapse of the supposedly anti-white ‘System’ by means of violence and different means, together with assaults on infrastructure, with the hope that doing so will usher in a nationwide socialist state,” Gais wrote.
