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 often known as the Terrorgram Collective, designating it a “terrorist group” over its promotion of violent white supremacy world wide.
The Division of State stated in a statement on Monday that it had designated the group, which primarily operates on the Telegram social media web site, and three of its leaders as “specifically designated world terrorists”.
“The group promotes violent white supremacism, solicits assaults on perceived adversaries, and offers steering and tutorial supplies on techniques, strategies, and targets,” the State Division defined.
“The group additionally glorifies those that have carried out such assaults.”
The State Division accused the group of facilitating assaults and tried violence, together with a 2022 capturing outdoors an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia, a deliberate assault in 2024 on power services in New Jersey and an August knife attack at a mosque in Turkiye.
“America stays deeply involved in regards to the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) risk worldwide and dedicated to countering transnational parts of violent white supremacism,” the division stated.
The designation freezes any US-based belongings held by the group and bars Individuals 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 Individuals 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 assist to terrorists, and soliciting hate crimes and the homicide of federal officers.
Hannah Gais, a senior analysis analyst with the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle, has written about Terrorgram for years.
She wrote in an analysis after the 2024 arrests that the web group has turn into “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 post 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’ via violence and different means, together with assaults on infrastructure, with the hope that doing so will usher in a nationwide socialist state,” Gais wrote.
