{"id":844785,"date":"2025-04-30T20:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-a-documentary-from-propublica-and-frontline-investigates-a-global-online-terror-network\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:12:56","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-a-documentary-from-propublica-and-frontline-investigates-a-global-online-terror-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-a-documentary-from-propublica-and-frontline-investigates-a-global-online-terror-network\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Rise and Fall of Terrorgram,\u201d a Documentary from ProPublica and FRONTLINE, Investigates a Global Online Terror Network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Rise and Fall of Terrorgram,\u201d a Documentary from ProPublica and FRONTLINE, Investigates a Global Online Terror Network
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Go inside the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational network of extremists accused of inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism on the messaging platform Telegram.
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This story is part of a collaborative investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Terrorgram,\u201d which premieres March 25 at 10 p.m. EDT\/9 p.m. CDT on PBS stations (check local listings<\/a>) and will be available to stream on YouTube<\/a>, the PBS App<\/a> and FRONTLINE\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

A new investigative collaboration from FRONTLINE and ProPublica explores a transnational online network of extremists accused of inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism on the messaging platform Telegram. They called themselves Terrorgram \u2014 and called their leadership the Terrorgram Collective.<\/p>\n

From an award-winning team led by reporters A.C. Thompson<\/a> and James Bandler<\/a> and acclaimed filmmakers Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Terrorgram\u201d continues years of groundbreaking reporting on violent extremism and online radicalization from ProPublica and FRONTLINE.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrawing on a trove of archived posts, our reporting shows how Telegram and other lightly regulated platforms became a gathering place for \u2018militant accelerationists\u2019 \u2014 neo-Nazis who want to use terror and violence to bring down governments and create new, white ethnostates,\u201d says Thompson, who has been reporting on the evolution of violent extremism in the U.S. for years and, with this project, expands his focus worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people on the messaging and social media app Telegram were trying to stir other people to commit acts of incredible violence and to spark a race war,\u201d says Bandler. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen through the Terrorgram story is that there are consequences to unfettered free speech, to having influencers out there advocating violence or mass murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telegram said in a statement<\/a> that it has always screened postings for problematic content and that \u201ccalls for violence from any group are not tolerated on our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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