Roman Höfner

@investigativ.bsky.social (da niemand anderes aus Eurem Haus hier zu sein scheint): WTF? Welche „Straßenschlachten“ bitte?

Svenskledd 764-cell bakom flera bilbränder i Ängelholm I november förra året inträffade tre bilbränder i Ängelholm, som alla misstänks vara anlagda. SVT kan nu berätta att en cell inom den extremistiska 764-miljön ligger bakom två av bränderna. I gruppen ...

As always, amazing research by @its-linus.bsky.social on 764 / COM www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran Court records point to Jonathan David Ross as officer in Renee Nicole Good’s death, amid protests and political fallout

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... by @awinston.bsky.social

(S+) »Generation Deutschland«: Wie radikal die neue AfD-Jugendorganisation wirklich ist Die neue AfD-Jugendorganisation soll professioneller auftreten und weniger Skandale auslösen. Doch SPIEGEL-Recherchen zeigen: Hinter der Fassade tummeln sich mehr Radikale und Neonazis als in der alte...

Die neue AfD-Jugendorganisation soll professioneller auftreten und weniger Skandale auslösen. Doch SPIEGEL-Recherchen zeigen: Hinter der Fassade tummeln sich mehr Radikale und Neonazis als in der alten.

Wichtige Recherche mit @mb-journalist.bsky.social & @johannesgrunert.bsky.social

Hopefully next week, we are working on it!

The internet was a mistake

As well as so many more I probably forgot...

For the UK and the US, you obviously have to follow @hanrahan.tv , @popularfront.co , @awinston.bsky.social and @ckd.sh as well as @jennefer.bsky.social and @decoherence.media , for Germany @affeu.bsky.social and @thilom.bsky.social , for Brazil @micheleprado.bsky.social and Romania Diana Mesesan

If you don't already follow @ctexposers.bsky.social
or @georgiaoost.bsky.social for any COM or other extemism news related stories from the Netherlands, you should do that! The best doc about COM imho and amazing research from Sweden has been done by @its-linus.bsky.social

Most importantly though, the people mentioned in this thread are not the only ones who have made big and important contributions and published important articles about this scene.

(S+) »764« und »White Tiger«: Das ist das wahre Ausmaß der Kinderquäler-Szene In Leipzig brachten Onlinesadisten offenbar eine 13-Jährige dazu, ihre Schwester zu töten. Diese SPIEGEL-Recherche zeigt, wie gefährlich Gruppen wie »764« und wie jung die Täter sind.

Unfortunately, Jay's death is not the only tragedy caused by this group. In order to get a grasp on how big the network is and how much harm they might have caused already, we also tried to find all known and public cases together with our great data journalists: www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

Later, my colleague Max visited Jay's parents and they were so incredibly kind and trusting to share their and Jay's heartbreaking story with us - the story which is now on the cover of Der Spiegel.

(S+) Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte Im Juni haben die Behörden einen Mordverdächtigen aus Hamburg verhaftet. Waren sie zu langsam? Ein US-Ermittler, der den mutmaßlichen Pädokriminellen Jahre zuvor enttarnte, erhebt im SPIEGEL Vorwürfe.

Shortly after, a FBI agent working Jay's case, who had actually identified the German believed to hide behind the username White Tiger in 2022 already told Der Spiegel how he got frustrated with Hamburg's police because it took them so long to arrest him: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

»White Tiger«: Mutmaßlicher Sexualstraftäter in Hamburg wegen Mordes angeklagt Die Hamburger Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen einen mutmaßlichen Cyberkriminellen erhoben. Der als »White Tiger« bekannte 21-Jährige soll mehr als 200 Straftaten begangen haben. Ein Opfer beging ...

In June of this year, the German believed to be hiding behind White Tiger was finally arrested. He is believed to have tortured 30 victims and is charged with murder for the death of Jay Taylor. The video we saw in 2023 will be an important piece of evidence. www.spiegel.de/panorama/whi...

(S+) Gewalt in digitalen Plattformen: Die Chatgruppen, die Menschen in den Tod treiben Auf Plattformen wie Discord oder Telegram organisiert sich eine gewalttätige Szene. Die gefährlichsten Mitglieder drängen junge Nutzer gezielt in den Suizid – wie den 25-jährigen Samuel Hervey.

Month later, with @washingtonpost.com and @ckd.sh, Max and I published another piece in Der Spiegel about a different victim that was pushed into suicide by the group. We also mentioned White Tiger again and that he bragged about owning a suicide tutorial "to help the emo girls". shorturl.at/LO3GU

We did include White Tiger bragging about cp and exortions in our first report – we did not mention the video though. We did not have proof it was actually him taking part in the call. Just a profile pic that could have been used by anyone. We also did not know anything about the boy who died.

At some point during this time we stumbled upon a member called White Tiger, whom we identified as a 20 year-old from Germany. We also found a video that showed a young boy hanging himself on a video chat - and a profile watching it that used a profile picture White Tiger allegedly had used as well.

(S+) Cybergrooming: Wie sich Sadisten weltweit in Chatgruppen zu Straftaten verabreden Sie zwingen Minderjährige zu Nacktfotos, Selbstverletzungen und sogar Suizid – Recherchen enthüllen, wie sich Sadisten weltweit in Chatgruppen zu solchen Taten verabreden. Und wie sie aufgespürt werde...

A lot has happened between 2021 and today: In 2023, @linaverschwele.bsky.social, Diana Mesesan, @awinston.bsky.social and I started looking into the sadistic cybergooming scene. @washingtonpost.com, @wired.com and @recorder.ro.web.brid.gy joined us and we published together 03/24. shorturl.at/XM0ou

Four years have passed since then and @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social & I have just published our newest piece about the German member White Tiger and how he allegedly pushed Jay Taylor, a 13-year-old from the US, into hanging himself. It's the cover story of @spiegel.de print magazine this week.

New piece about Com/764! But beforehand – credit where credit is due: The first time I heard about 764 was from @hanrahan.tv in November of 2021. Jake had just learned that Angel Almeida might have been a member of a group with that name and that their members "get young girls to cut themselves"

(S+) »White Tiger«: Hamburger soll Schüler zum Suizid gedrängt haben Der Schüler Jay Taylor beging vor laufender Kamera Suizid, weil ihn eine sadistische Onlinegruppe um den 21-jährigen Hamburger Shahriar J. dazu gedrängt haben soll. Seine Eltern erzählen hier vom verl...

Zeer indrukwekkend onderzoek van @spiegel.de over 'White Tiger': de 21-jarige Duitser die, via het sadistische Com-netwerk, de 13-jarige Jay Taylor overtuigde zelfmoord te plegen. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Welcome to Decoherence Media! We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

As part of our investigation into the Rope Culture web server, we created a search interface for Nazi forum scrapes and leaked databases called FashyLeaks. Currently it includes the Iron March and Rope Culture datasets, with many more to come.

How to use FashyLeaks Navigating our new search interface for searching neo-Nazi datasets

To help familiarize yourself with FashyLeaks, read our written guide or watch our video guide.

They also published FashyLeaks – a dataset of members belonging to ironmarch as well as rope culture. Leaks and Breaches like this will turn our to be incredibly futile in the future to see where it all began: fashyleaks.com?ref=decohere...

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

They took a deep dive into “Rope Culture”, a web Server and web magazine that was started by Alisher Mukhitdinov, the same guy who is behind the forum iron march: decoherence.media/neo-nazi-rop...

Decoherence Media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods

🚨 I have been a fan of @jennefer.bsky.social's and @tristanl.ee's work for a long, long time - They have just started @decoherence.media which everyone should follow who is interested in stories about far right accelerationism, Order of Nine Angles Satinism, and every other anti-democratic movement.