Matt Kriner
@mattkriner.bsky.social
Militant Accelerationism. Radicalization. Digital Extremism. Trust & Safety.
Executive Director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE) and Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC)
www.counteringextremism.org
www.accresearch.org
Executive Director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE) and Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC)
www.counteringextremism.org
www.accresearch.org
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Matt Kriner
@mattkriner.bsky.social
· Dec 2
An Introduction to Militant Accelerationism — ARC
By Matthew Kriner on behalf of the ARC Steering Committee
www.accresearch.org
Hello Bluesky! I'm the founder and Managing Director of the Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC).
Since ARC's founding, militant accelerationist aligned terrorism has remained a persistent threat.
Read my piece: An Introduction to Militant Accelerationism www.accresearch.org/shortanalysi...
Since ARC's founding, militant accelerationist aligned terrorism has remained a persistent threat.
Read my piece: An Introduction to Militant Accelerationism www.accresearch.org/shortanalysi...
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ICDE's Executive Director @mattkriner.bsky.social is testifying for the Crown today in the sentencing hearing for Atomwaffen's "Dark Foreigner."
Follow @antihate.ca for updates.
Follow @antihate.ca for updates.
🚨 1/ IN COURT: The sentencing for Patrick Macdonald, better known as the Dark Foreigner, and a propagandist for the terrorist group Atomwaffen, has begun.
Follow along here for important updates.
Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:
Follow along here for important updates.
Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:
Atomwaffen Division Propagandist Patrick Macdonald Found Guilty on All Charges
The maximum sentence for one of Patrick Macdonald’s charges includes life in prison.
www.antihate.ca
June 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ICDE's Executive Director @mattkriner.bsky.social is testifying for the Crown today in the sentencing hearing for Atomwaffen's "Dark Foreigner."
Follow @antihate.ca for updates.
Follow @antihate.ca for updates.
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Such an important issue that many people still have never heard of.
If you have kids in your life, please, please talk to them about best practices online. Help them understand signs of exploitation and manipulation, and let them know you're a safe landing space no matter what.
If you have kids in your life, please, please talk to them about best practices online. Help them understand signs of exploitation and manipulation, and let them know you're a safe landing space no matter what.
Very encouraging news to wrap the week. The DOJ announced yet another arrest in their campaign to hold members of the 764 network accountable for their crimes.
764 is a nihilistic violent extremist network that preys on our kids.
764 is a nihilistic violent extremist network that preys on our kids.
San Fernando Valley Man Arrested for Allegedly Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material Tied to Online Violent Network Known as ‘764’
A California man was arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he targeted children for sexual exploitation online as part of his role in an online violent network that seeks to accelerat...
www.justice.gov
April 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Such an important issue that many people still have never heard of.
If you have kids in your life, please, please talk to them about best practices online. Help them understand signs of exploitation and manipulation, and let them know you're a safe landing space no matter what.
If you have kids in your life, please, please talk to them about best practices online. Help them understand signs of exploitation and manipulation, and let them know you're a safe landing space no matter what.
I am deeply honored to have been part of AC Thompson and James Bandler's recent investigative reporting and the PBS Frontline documentary: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram.
It is a crucial examination of a highly dangerous global terrorism movement.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
It is a crucial examination of a highly dangerous global terrorism movement.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate how an online network known as Terrorgram spread extremism and violence.
www.pbs.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I am deeply honored to have been part of AC Thompson and James Bandler's recent investigative reporting and the PBS Frontline documentary: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram.
It is a crucial examination of a highly dangerous global terrorism movement.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
It is a crucial examination of a highly dangerous global terrorism movement.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
If you want to better understand why Amy and I co-founded ICDE, then this thread is worth your time.
Promise.
Promise.
I'm thrilled to announce my new position as Deputy Director (and cofounder!) of ICDE.
As promised earlier, I'm sharing a bit more detail in this thread.
As promised earlier, I'm sharing a bit more detail in this thread.
📢 Announcing the launch of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE)!
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If you want to better understand why Amy and I co-founded ICDE, then this thread is worth your time.
Promise.
Promise.
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Thrilled to announce my new position as Deputy Director (and cofounder!) of ICDE.
More later!
More later!
📢 Announcing the launch of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE)!
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
The Institute for Countering Digital Extremism
ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
www.counteringextremism.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Thrilled to announce my new position as Deputy Director (and cofounder!) of ICDE.
More later!
More later!
Also quite excited to announce that @arcglobal.bsky.social will permanently be housed out of @icde.bsky.social!
Lots of big changes in the works. Stay tuned!
Lots of big changes in the works. Stay tuned!
ARC has a permanent home! 🙌
As an initiative of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, ARC will contribute to the ICDE mission of countering violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Be sure to follow @icde.bsky.social and spread the word!
As an initiative of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, ARC will contribute to the ICDE mission of countering violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Be sure to follow @icde.bsky.social and spread the word!
📢 Announcing the launch of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE)!
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
March 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Also quite excited to announce that @arcglobal.bsky.social will permanently be housed out of @icde.bsky.social!
Lots of big changes in the works. Stay tuned!
Lots of big changes in the works. Stay tuned!
For weeks now terrorism researchers have anticipated this moment would come. Now that it's here it's almost impossible to over state the impact this will have on American, actually global, safety from terrorist violence.
This only puts Americans and our allies (those we have left) at greater risk
This only puts Americans and our allies (those we have left) at greater risk
NIJ, Minerva, and now DHS.
Terrorism research portfolios gone. Just wiped out.
Years of progress, years of partnerships, years of producing actionable knowledge to make communities safer just down the toilet.
Terrorism research portfolios gone. Just wiped out.
Years of progress, years of partnerships, years of producing actionable knowledge to make communities safer just down the toilet.
March 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For weeks now terrorism researchers have anticipated this moment would come. Now that it's here it's almost impossible to over state the impact this will have on American, actually global, safety from terrorist violence.
This only puts Americans and our allies (those we have left) at greater risk
This only puts Americans and our allies (those we have left) at greater risk
📢 I am beyond excited to announce that @amycooter.bsky.social and I have co-founded @icde.bsky.social 📢
ICDE is a non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Follow us and learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
ICDE is a non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Follow us and learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
📢 I am beyond excited to announce that @amycooter.bsky.social and I have co-founded @icde.bsky.social 📢
ICDE is a non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Follow us and learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
ICDE is a non-profit think tank dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Follow us and learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
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Excellent work from 3 ARC fellows!
In reading the court records for the Jack Rocker 764 case, and found that Exhibit B was our ( @mbtyler.bsky.social and Barrett) GNET article on 764
March 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Excellent work from 3 ARC fellows!
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Future lists of social and institutional steps on the pathway to genocide Must include organizations that analyze and fight extremism abandoning their mission and endorsing other steps on that list.
It's stunning and disgusting and just plain painful, and not enough people are speaking out,
It's stunning and disgusting and just plain painful, and not enough people are speaking out,
March 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Future lists of social and institutional steps on the pathway to genocide Must include organizations that analyze and fight extremism abandoning their mission and endorsing other steps on that list.
It's stunning and disgusting and just plain painful, and not enough people are speaking out,
It's stunning and disgusting and just plain painful, and not enough people are speaking out,
A new piece out today from the incredible @oyousef.bsky.social looking at new radicalization patterns in school shootings in the US.
With comments from me speaking to insights generated by the amazing @arcglobal.bsky.social team!
www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...
With comments from me speaking to insights generated by the amazing @arcglobal.bsky.social team!
www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...
Experts warn that recent school shootings show growth in new radicalization pattern
Some researchers say these recent attacks are examples of "nonideological" terrorism — the result of several antisocial, decentralized, online networks coming together.
www.npr.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A new piece out today from the incredible @oyousef.bsky.social looking at new radicalization patterns in school shootings in the US.
With comments from me speaking to insights generated by the amazing @arcglobal.bsky.social team!
www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...
With comments from me speaking to insights generated by the amazing @arcglobal.bsky.social team!
www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...
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February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Want to make your policy strategy more effective at the state and local level? Join @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social’s upcoming webinar: “State and Local Government Advocacy” on March 26 at 12pm PT/3pm ET to hear from an expert panel. Register here 👇: bit.ly/3XoWByf
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Anyone want to bet that no one looks at the email responses that Musk asked for ?
It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI
He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone.
If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.
It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI
He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone.
If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.
February 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anyone want to bet that no one looks at the email responses that Musk asked for ?
It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI
He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone.
If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.
It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI
He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone.
If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.
This will be an indispensable resource
Along with Stuart Macdonald and @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social, I am compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social. We already have a fantastic line up of contributors, but now we are looking for more!
February 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This will be an indispensable resource
It’s fascism. The Trump administration and its officials are engaging in fascist signaling.
Bannon has long been on the cryptic fascism train.
Why now? Because they know they won’t face repercussions for their true views.
Bannon has long been on the cryptic fascism train.
Why now? Because they know they won’t face repercussions for their true views.
I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing.
This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it.
No more looking away. Face up to what it is.
This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it.
No more looking away. Face up to what it is.
February 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s fascism. The Trump administration and its officials are engaging in fascist signaling.
Bannon has long been on the cryptic fascism train.
Why now? Because they know they won’t face repercussions for their true views.
Bannon has long been on the cryptic fascism train.
Why now? Because they know they won’t face repercussions for their true views.
Elon appears to be going more explicitly white supremacist fascism each day...
In case you missed it, I wrote about his and the Trump administration's history with fascist dogwhistles for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
In case you missed it, I wrote about his and the Trump administration's history with fascist dogwhistles for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
February 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Elon appears to be going more explicitly white supremacist fascism each day...
In case you missed it, I wrote about his and the Trump administration's history with fascist dogwhistles for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
In case you missed it, I wrote about his and the Trump administration's history with fascist dogwhistles for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
Correct. The only reasonable way to interpret this is through the lens of fascism
February 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Correct. The only reasonable way to interpret this is through the lens of fascism
Full price or discounted, you won’t regret making this purchase.
Oh hey, just realized it's my book's first birthday!
It's a little pricey right now, but if you want to learn more about what motivates militias, maybe request your library purchases a copy?
www.routledge.com/Nostalgia-Na...
It's a little pricey right now, but if you want to learn more about what motivates militias, maybe request your library purchases a copy?
www.routledge.com/Nostalgia-Na...
Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is
Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement i...
www.routledge.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Full price or discounted, you won’t regret making this purchase.
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According to the court documents, Tinajero is a self-identified member of the 764 network. Jairo He pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy, online enticement, production and distribution of CSAM, and conspiracy to murder Jane Doe 1 in aid of racketeering.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/membe...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/membe...
Member of the 764 Criminal Enterprise Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy and Other Charges
Jairo Jaime Tinajero, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Western District of Kentucky to the following charges contained in the superseding information: racketeering conspiracy, online enticement, th...
www.justice.gov
February 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
According to the court documents, Tinajero is a self-identified member of the 764 network. Jairo He pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy, online enticement, production and distribution of CSAM, and conspiracy to murder Jane Doe 1 in aid of racketeering.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/membe...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/membe...
The body language here is phenomenally transparent.
Both think they’re controlling the other but neither has a hand on the wheel
Both think they’re controlling the other but neither has a hand on the wheel
The new iconic photo that i predicted ultimately destroys the relationship:
February 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The body language here is phenomenally transparent.
Both think they’re controlling the other but neither has a hand on the wheel
Both think they’re controlling the other but neither has a hand on the wheel
Just three weeks ago Elon was standing behind another symbol of the Presidency doing a fascist salute…
The assault on American democracy continues
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
The assault on American democracy continues
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
February 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Just three weeks ago Elon was standing behind another symbol of the Presidency doing a fascist salute…
The assault on American democracy continues
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
The assault on American democracy continues
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
Imagine being a researcher or analyst of the far-right…
I can't imagine what it's like being a constitutional law, American history, international relations, public health or economics professor right now
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Imagine being a researcher or analyst of the far-right…
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Well, you've been hearing me bang on about it forever, but my dissertation is finally online. I will bookify it later, but for now you get it in the original Academese.
A short thread on The Social Construction of Extremism.
www.jmberger.com/extremism/th...
A short thread on The Social Construction of Extremism.
www.jmberger.com/extremism/th...
February 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Well, you've been hearing me bang on about it forever, but my dissertation is finally online. I will bookify it later, but for now you get it in the original Academese.
A short thread on The Social Construction of Extremism.
www.jmberger.com/extremism/th...
A short thread on The Social Construction of Extremism.
www.jmberger.com/extremism/th...
This embrace of racism fits in nicely with his inauguration “salute”
Which I wrote about here:
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
Which I wrote about here:
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
February 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This embrace of racism fits in nicely with his inauguration “salute”
Which I wrote about here:
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
Which I wrote about here:
theconversation.com/musks-inaugu...
I spoke with @davecantor.bsky.social at @vpm.org about the recent indictment of four CVLT leaders, a sextortion group that was the predecessor to 764.
Whether its CVLT, 764, Terrorgram Collective or the entity not yet made, accelerationist networks rely on digital spaces to advance their harms.
Whether its CVLT, 764, Terrorgram Collective or the entity not yet made, accelerationist networks rely on digital spaces to advance their harms.
Our Executive Director, @mattkriner.bsky.social and Senior Fellow @maargentino.com were featured in a @vpm.org article on 764 predecessor org, CVLT, and the recent federal indictment of four of its leaders.
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
Imprisoned neofascist indicted in new child sex abuse case
Kaleb Merritt was previously found guilty of abducting, abusing Henry County minors.
www.vpm.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I spoke with @davecantor.bsky.social at @vpm.org about the recent indictment of four CVLT leaders, a sextortion group that was the predecessor to 764.
Whether its CVLT, 764, Terrorgram Collective or the entity not yet made, accelerationist networks rely on digital spaces to advance their harms.
Whether its CVLT, 764, Terrorgram Collective or the entity not yet made, accelerationist networks rely on digital spaces to advance their harms.