All posts tagged "Nihilism"

Marek Cherkaoui, a 21-year-old New Jersey man, was charged with cyberstalking, the FBI said, for allegedly extorting a 13-year-old girl to cut herself, by threatening to release personal information.

Allegations against the member of the nihilistic online network 764 range from extreme psychological abuse of children to promoting mass-casualty attacks.

The case is only the most recent sign of what experts describe as a shift in online nihilist tactics, from typically pursuing sextortion to advocating and planning for offline violence. ...

False reports of active shooters that put Villanova University in Philadelphia and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on lockdown and saw law enforcement swarming over campuses last week were likely perpetrated by an online swatting group called “Purgatory,” extremism researchers say.

Five Purgatory members hosted a voice call on Discord, a platform popular with gamers, on Aug. 21 to an audience of 41 people, livestreaming the bogus calls to authorities at Villanova and Tennessee, according to a report by Marc-André Argentino, a Canadian researcher.

Using a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service that masks caller identity and location, a Purgatory leader with the screenname “Gores” made calls reporting active shooters, per a report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, or GPAHE, which also monitored the chat. ...

WASHINGTON – As Democrats fear a wave of losses in next Tuesday's elections, due in part to a lack of enthusiasm within their base, one progressive champion made an impassioned plea for liberals to head to the polls and and vote.