A Chinese teenager from Singapore who identified as a white supremacist after being radicalised online planned out school shootings in the US, and other terror attacks across the world. The boy, who has not been named, planned on carrying out…[Continue Reading...]
The risk of children being radicalised by extremism on social media is “a blind spot” in new safety rules being drawn up to tackle toxic content online, the government’s terror watchdog warned on Wednesday. Jonathan Hall KC said that proposals…[Continue Reading...]
Charles Bameko, a 52-year-old Congolese pastor of the la Bonne semence transmise (Good seed transmitted) church in the French city of Créteil, was given a suspended three-year prison sentence for swindling over two million euros. Between 2019 and 2022, he…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Satan would like to make it clear that members don’t worship the Devil, nor do they believe Satan is real. What they do believe in, and the rituals they practice, emerge in the documentary Realm of Satan,…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix has commissioned Raël: The Alien Prophet, a four-part docuseries exploring how a UFO-inspired religion spiralled into a controversial cult. Produced by Banijay France label KM, the series launches on the streamer on 7 February. Through investigative work and recovered…[Continue Reading...]
Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their stories of friends and family members who were radicalized by QAnon, Trumpism, and the far right. Here's what they had to say."Like many, I have that one uncle. He strongly believes…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court has charged cult leader cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 94 suspected accomplices with manslaughter over the deaths of more than 200 people. Mackenzie and his co-accused – including the self-proclaimed pastor's wife – pleaded not guilty to…[Continue Reading...]
TikToker Kate Kowalczik (@lcswkate) recently uploaded a viral clip that’s accrued over 781,000 views in which she delineates how, on several occasions, she’s been approached by multi-level marketing employees while shopping in “discount stores.” Kowalczik highlights how these individuals will…[Continue Reading...]
In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Mondays our Tech Reporter Mikael Thalen debunks the most wild conspiracy theories swirling around the web in his “One Dumb Conspiracy” column. If you want to read…[Continue Reading...]
Exploring the rise and fall of the Synanon organization — through the eyes of the members who lived it — from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.…[Continue Reading...]
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