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Institute for Strategic Dialogue director Catherine Canuli warns online "nihilistic" communities are increasingly targeting youth
Summary
Catherine Canuli of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue told the task force that hybrid online networks are mobilizing young people to violence for violence's sake, citing 41 intelligence briefs submitted last year—34 tied to nihilistic violence—and two case studies, including a foiled Pierce County plot involving a 13-year-old.
Catherine Canuli, director of threat analysis and prevention at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told the Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force that "nihilistic violence" networks online are increasingly targeting young people and producing a growing number of credible, preventable threats.
"Last year we submitted 41 briefs to law enforcement that were act incidents of activity that directly suggested that there was an individual or group or movement who was planning to engage in activities such as a school shooting," Canuli said. "Last year, 34 of those briefs sent to law enforcement were directly tied to nihilistic violence." She described nihilistic violence as violent acts "that lack an…
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