Posts Tagged ‘recruitment & radicalization’
Kentucky attorney general sues Roblox alleging a “playground for predators”
Kentucky has sued Roblox, alleging that children are accessing violent simulation games on the popular gaming platform, including depictions of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, just weeks after the conservative activist’s killing. In the 68-page complaint filed Tuesday in Madison Circuit Court in Madison County, the state Attorney General’s Office alleges that it is not…
Read MoreFBI Baltimore warns of 764 network, group of individuals that coerces children into violent acts
The FBI is investigating 350 cases involving the 764 network nationwide, including 12 in Maryland, according to the Baltimore Field Office of the FBI. The 764 network tricks, coerces and otherwise encourages kids to engage in sex acts, harm animals, mutilate and even kill themselves through video games and social media. After the acts are…
Read MoreOrlando man sentenced to prison for lying about ISIS support
An Orlando man has been sentenced to federal prison for lying to investigators about a designated foreign terrorist organization. The Justice Department says Islam Doci, 47, was sentenced to six years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Doci pleaded guilty in October 2024 to making false statements to the FBI during…
Read MoreAlberta man was ISIS propagandist, police say
Writing under the alias “Sulaiman Dawood al-Kanadie,” he penned fiery propaganda for the Islamic State about attacks that would dwarf Sept. 11, 2001. In the ISIS magazine Voice of Khurasan, he praised the terror group’s late leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, demonized Jews and lectured about fighting jihad. But the internet wasn’t as anonymous as he…
Read MoreBrisbane teen faces court on terrorism charges after violent extremist material and chemicals allegedly seized
A Queensland teenager charged with terrorism offences has been granted bail after police allegedly seized violent extremist material including an Islamic State video and chemicals for explosives. Max Belter, 18, appeared in a green prison jumper in Brisbane magistrates court on Thursday after a joint terrorism taskforce raided his property at The Gap in Brisbane’s…
Read MoreTerror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ sentenced to 10 years in prison
Patrick Gordon MacDonald has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jewish people and other groups with terrorist propaganda images, memes and videos — all in an attempt to accelerate societal collapse through a hoped-for race war. With three months of credit for the…
Read MoreHamilton constable suspended after posting content from extremist groups, following CBC investigation
Hamilton police have suspended a longtime officer while they review his social media posts, which include content re-shared from far-right groups, anti-immigrant messages and posts in support for a coup against the government. Following a CBC visual investigation into white nationalist “active clubs” training in the Hamilton area, a reader contacted CBC Hamilton to share…
Read MoreLeader of Transnational Terrorist Group Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
The Justice Department announced today that Dallas Humber, 35, of Elk Grove, California — leader of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group — pleaded guilty to all charges against her, including soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. District Court Judge Dena Coggins found…
Read More‘Guilty’ — Windsor man to be sentenced for supporting terrorist group
A Windsor judge on Thursday convicted a local man on a rare terrorism-related charge, finding him guilty of offering his “skill and expertise” to a violent, extremist white-supremacy group listed in Canada as a terrorist entity.Article content Seth Bertrand, now 22 but only 18 at the time he filed an online application in 2021 to…
Read MoreTajik man sentenced to 5.5 years for recruiting for ISIS in Netherlands
A 31-year-old man from Tajikistan was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday for recruiting members for Islamic State (IS) across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, to allegedly prepare attacks. The Rotterdam court said the man posed a serious threat to Dutch society and had sought to raise as much money…
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