We are calling on Telegram to be consistent and take serious action against the terrorist content still on the platform that is putting Jewish and other minoritised communities at risk. GhostEzra became one of the most popular QAnon channels on the messaging app Telegram during 2021, sharing content ranging from bizarre flat earth theories. 6 riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., GhostEzra transitioned to Telegram where he would soon gain. Two months later, ISIS carried out a deadly attack in France, killing 130 people and wounding 350 more, using Telegram to coordinate and plan the attacks.Īfter the attack, Telegram backtracked and began removing ISIS accounts from its platform, because privacy is not boundless when lives are at risk. After being banned from mainstream social media outlets such as Twitter following the Jan. In 2015 Pavel Durov (Telegram CEO) asserted that “the right for privacy is more important than our fear of bad things happening, like terrorism.” This meant that terrorist organisations like ISIS found home in Telegram. The platform has facilitated and nurtured a subculture that cheerleads for and deifies terrorists, and regards mass murder not only as a means to revolution and retribution, but as a form of entertainment – all in the name of privacy.

Recruit new members to white nationalist and antisemitic networks.Organise and coordinate far right terror plots.Telegram hosts users such as GhostEzra, an overtly antisemitic QAnon influencer with over 330,000 subscribers on the platform who runs what has been dubbed the “largest antisemitic internet forum” in the world. Our research has found that your platform, more than any other, is being used by terror-promoting far right networks and is home to the most extreme, genocidal and directly violent antisemitic content. Wood told his 845,000 subscribers that he enjoys GhostEzra’s channel, and would return the compliment on his youthful looks, if he knew what GhostEzra looked like.

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