Posted on 01/12/2021 4:35:20 PM PST by Hostage
Some pro-Trump extremists have used the platforms to suggest skipping local rallies to focus instead on a big turnout in D.C. at Biden's inauguration.
ight-wing extremists are using channels on the encrypted communication app Telegram to call for violence against government officials on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, with some extremists sharing knowledge of how to make, conceal and use homemade guns and bombs.
The messages are being posted in Telegram chatrooms where white supremacist content has been freely shared for months, but chatter on the channels has increased since extremists have been forced off other platforms in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol last week by pro-Trump rioters.
Telegram is a Dubai-based messaging service that does little moderation of its content and has a sizable international user base, particularly in eastern Europe and the Middle East.
In the days since the Capitol attack, for example, an Army field manual and exhortations to "shoot politicians" and "encourage armed struggle" have been posted in a Telegram channel that uses "fascist" in its name.
Chris Sampson, chief of research at the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies, a defense research institute, said his group is focused on and concerned about users of the channel and has alerted the FBI about it. (The institute is run by Malcolm Nance, an NBC News terrorism analyst.)
“When they start calling for assassinations, when they start calling for action versus sharing information, we flag them a little higher," Sampson said. "Some channels merely swap information, but then they accelerated into conversations of where to be.”
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Moving to Telegram News updates and content meant to inspire people to fight for President Donald Trump still abound on mainstream platforms.
A video stoking fears about a stolen election and galvanizing those who might want to fight in behalf of Trump was on YouTube for 12 hours Monday. Ominous music plays in the background as Trump speeches are woven with biblical verses. The video was recently removed for "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines."
Far-right Telegram chat room membership has ballooned in recent days, particularly since the popular platform Parler, financed by the wealthy conservative backer Rebekah Mercer, went offline Monday after Amazon rescinded its web-hosting service.
There are multiple Telegram channels for the right-wing group called the Proud Boys, and the largest of them have more than 28,000 members. One channel frequented by Proud Boys has been renamed to attract ex-Parler users.
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TELEGRAM is the new PARLER.
This hit piece shows that it is TELEGRAM that is the right conservative gathering place and not SIGNAL which has evidence of ties to Twitter.
25 Million New Users Joined Telegram In The Last 72 Hours
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Fixed it. ;'}
Feels like garbage to me. Great way to get people to sign up at Telegram, though, especially leftards.
Who is this left-wing extremist Anna Schecter?
Another name that needs to go on a “list.”
At the rate this is going the Deep State is going to start shooting carrier pigeons on sight.
;-)
I don’t think anything is going to happen on Inauguration Day, if it does then the fallout will be terrible for a lot of people. We have to be smarter and work out a long term plan to get control of the gop or start a new party.
NBC is pushing conspiracy theories.
Police State
1984.
They quake in fear of the citizens they claim to represent.
The rhetoric coming out of these media players, and they say
Trump incites people.
You just know that they tried to bait some TEA Party patriots into some sting operations but never found a sucker.
Breaking News: must use gov’t-approved means of communication etc, cannot use Tor, etc, because it’s dangerous, Will Robinson!
How will the demented ,corrupt Biden react when clearly audible throughout his inauguration the chant “Fraud, fraud , fraud....fraud” is repeated constantly by outraged people exercising their constitutional rights.
funny,, all the word on those networks is to stay the hell away from everything,,, either they are being misled or they are misleading,,,but probably both
Telegram Messenger.
The link is for mobile apps Android and Apple. Here’s the one for Windows PCs:
“to focus instead on a big turnout in D.C. at Biden’s inauguration”
Conservatives have jobs and responsibilities. They don’t have time to go to rallies in DC and protest like spoiled Antifa kids.
He’s doing his inauguration via Zoom due to Covid or so it’s reported.
The problem is Antifa is going to be doing these things as Trump supporters. There’s going to be a lot of false flags. And the DNC press will also flat out make up crap.
John has a long mustache!
Nobody should go to DC. It would be hilarious to see all the National Guard troops and police from all over the world and 100 Biden supporters
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