{"id":12108,"date":"2025-07-16T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:43:30","slug":"path-to-sainthood-the-role-of-influence-played-by-the-sanctification-propaganda-cycle-within-the-terrorgram-collective-by-s-lucini-e-a-pugnana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/path-to-sainthood-the-role-of-influence-played-by-the-sanctification-propaganda-cycle-within-the-terrorgram-collective-by-s-lucini-e-a-pugnana\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Path to Sainthood&#8221;: the role of influence played by the \u2018Sanctification Propaganda Cycle\u2019 within the Terrorgram collective &#8211; by S. Lucini e A. Pugnana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following article is an extract from the paper <em>\u201cPath to Sainthood\u201d: the role of influence played by the \u2018Sanctification Propaganda Cycle\u2019 within the Terrorgram collective<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicurezzaterrorismosocieta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ebook_SicTerSoc_21-Silvano-Rizieri-Lucini-Alessandra-Pugnana.pdf\">Issue 4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicurezzaterrorismosocieta.it\/fascicolo-21-2025\/\">Vol. 21<\/a>, published by the ITSTIME international journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicurezzaterrorismosocieta.it\/\">Sicurezza, Terrorismo, Societ\u00e0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telegram has long been the digital home for many extremist communities and groups. 2019 saw the rise of Fascist Telegram, which would later become Terrorgram, a group that would have a great influence on the extreme-right online ecosystem. The Terrorgram collective is a loosely connected network through a net of different channels that share extremist ideas. Its goal is to radicalise online users and incite them to commit attacks against those who are perceived by the collective as \u201cenemies of the white race\u201d. To achieve its goal, the collective tirelessly produced and spread propaganda, including their own publications. A great deal of their propaganda is centred around the \u2018saints\u2019, extreme-right attackers who are glorified by the collective. However, in September 2024, two leaders of Terrorgram were arrested, leading to a halt in the propaganda production of the collective. This paper focuses on the \u2018sanctification\u2019 process and how relevant it was for the collective. \u2018Sainthood\u2019 was not only the promise of eternal glory to potential attackers but a way to ensure the collective received new original content to use as the basis for new propaganda material, creating a self-sustaining cycle of radicalisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"12111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image-editing-DX-3-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article is an extract from the paper \u201cPath to Sainthood\u201d: the role of influence played by the \u2018Sanctification Propaganda Cycle\u2019 within the Terrorgram collective, Issue 4, Vol. 21, published by the ITSTIME international journal<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/path-to-sainthood-the-role-of-influence-played-by-the-sanctification-propaganda-cycle-within-the-terrorgram-collective-by-s-lucini-e-a-pugnana\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[661,9,660,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propaganda","category-security","category-terrorgram","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12248,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/12248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itstime.it\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}