How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill
—
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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
@ProPublica
Humans are complicated and have many influences and motivations. You are weaving a narrative with assumptions of which influences led someone do something. The influences, motives, and conclusion you are leading people to is transparent: Nazis bad, Telegram bad, free speech bad.
@ProPublica , I blocked the person making a comment on this. Look at them try to softball the far-right ideology into this. Visit their page, right-wing Russian propaganda for giving up Ukraine. They will hide behind free speech like a meat shield until it's time to stab it in the back.
If ProPublica were able to investigate this, what are the chances that the CIA and the FBI couldn't do it before it happened?
