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June 30, 2020

White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds

Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research told CNN: “They’re very large if you take into account quite how egregious the content is: its calls for violence, promotion of terrorist groups, celebration of the attacks of lone-actor terrorists.”

ISD analyzed more than 1 million individual posts on Telegram among dozens of White supremacist channels.

Jakob Guhl’s and Jacob Davey’s ISD briefing on ‘White Supremists Mobilisation on Telegram is available here: A Safe Space to Hate.

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