A Killer True Crime Fandom & Islamic State’s Digital Caliphate
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Things have gotten very surreal in the dark corners of the internet. AI-generated prophets are preaching jihad in Facebook groups, Minecraft servers host digital caliphates, and school shooting fandoms gather to study their heroes and plot how to up beat their score. It’s a double bill on this episode of Angry Planet as two experts from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a nonprofit that studies and works to mitigate violent extremists, discuss the brave new world of online-born violence.
First up is Milo Comerford, the co-author of a study about nihilistic violence. Then we’ve got Moustafa Ayad to talk about how the Islamic State is circumventing bans and pushing its message on social media.
- Staying sane on the internet
- Violence without ideology
- The Comm
- 764
- True Crime Community
- Saints Culture
- When fandom becomes a killing
- An aesthetics driven movement
- Online and offline have merged
- Moderation is impossible
- You don’t have to hand it to ISIS
- Broken text posting
- Copyright strikes and the Islamic State
- Facebook professional as the gold standard
- AI resurrects dead influencers
- Jihad influencers
- Even IS is obsessed with the Epstein files
- Virtual caliphates in Roblox and Minecraft
- “We must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Once again, it all comes back to 4chan
- Saying nice things about twitter dot com
‘The Comm’: The Group Linked to a Nationwide Swatting Rampage
How the True Crime Community generates its own killers
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| 0:17.8 | Hello there, Angry Planet listeners, Matthew here at the top. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm just going to tease what we've got. |
| 0:22.7 | It's two different interviews kind of strung together of the same theme, |
| 0:25.6 | two guys from the same place. |
| 0:28.4 | They are gentlemen from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. |
| 0:31.7 | There's a pair of reports out from them. |
| 0:35.5 | We're going to check in on one of our favorite topics, online extremism. |
| 0:39.6 | And we're going to get into some interesting things about criminal groups online and |
| 0:46.1 | kind of how they interact. |
| 0:47.8 | And what's the Islamic State up to? |
| 0:50.6 | What are they posted about? |
| 0:51.9 | Are they using AI to resurrect Baghdadi and hanging out in Roblox? |
| 0:56.9 | Yes. It's bizarre. Stay tuned. Here we go. I was thinking about you in this report yesterday, |
| 1:04.2 | which I'll introduce in a moment, as I was looking at some particularly nasty things online, |
| 1:09.0 | and I was thinking, like, I have a, you know, like, especially lately, um, it's been, like a lot of the stuff has been wearing me down, like a lot of the things that I see on the internet. And, um, I feel like I got nothing on what you're dealing with and what you're like putting yourself through. do you manage that i think we all know someone |
| 1:29.7 | who's dealing with an even more serious version of what we're dealing with so i i can point you |
| 1:34.2 | the direction of people that are that are having a really tough time um but certainly i mean it's it's |
| 1:39.6 | just wild i mean i'm someone that's spent the last 10 years you know looking at ISIS content |
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