The network, which operates primarily through Telegram, has been linked to a series of brute force attacks, officials said.

U.S. officials have imposed sanctions on an online network called the Terrorgram Collective, designating it as a “terrorist organization” for promoting violent white supremacy around the world.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement statement On Monday, it designated the group, which operates primarily on the Telegram social media site, and its three leaders as “specially designated global terrorists.”

“The group promotes violent white supremacy, incites attacks on perceived adversaries, and provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and objectives,” the State Department explained.

“The group also praises those who carry out such attacks.”

The U.S. State Department has accused the group of facilitating attacks and attempted violence, including a 2022 shooting outside an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia, a planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey in 2024 and an attack in August. Knife attack A mosque in Türkiye.

“The United States remains deeply concerned about the global threat of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE) and is committed to countering the transnational component of violent white supremacy,” the department said.

The sanctions freeze all assets held by the group in the United States and prohibit Americans from conducting financial transactions with those sanctioned.

Three people sanctioned on Monday are said to be leaders of the Terrorgram channel: Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira from Brazil, Noah Licul from Croatia and Hendrik-Wahl Muller from South Africa.

In September, U.S. officials arrested They also identified two Americans as leaders of the group: Dallas Erin Humber of California and Matthew Robert Allison of Idaho.

official charged They led a “transnational terrorist organization,” distributed bomb-making instructions, conspired to provide material support to terrorists, and incited hate crimes and the murder of federal officials.

Hannah Gais is a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center and has been writing about Terrorgram for several years.

she wrote in an article analyze In the wake of the 2024 arrests, the online group has become “a hub for increasingly fragmented factions of the white power movement.”

“Members tend to discourage others from joining the group IRL (in real life),” she explained in another post. postal on social media.

Gass said Terrorgram’s goal is to promote “accelerationism” as an alternative to political approaches to advancing its beliefs.

Gass writes: “White power accelerationists seek to bring about the collapse of the so-called anti-white ‘system’ through violence and other means, including attacks on infrastructure, and hope that in doing so they will usher in a national socialist state. “