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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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tags:
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- Person
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- TerrorgramCollective
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- NeoNazi
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- Accelerationism
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- Brazil
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- SDGT
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born: 1987-08-27
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location: "Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil"
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Belo Horizonte, Brazil resident designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US State Department on January 13, 2025 as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator."
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---
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Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira (born August 27, 1987, [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil) is a Brazilian national designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) on January 13, 2025, pursuant to [[Executive Order 13224]], as amended by [[Executive Order 13886]], in connection with his role as an administrator of the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was one of three foreign nationals designated simultaneously alongside [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia) and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa), the same action that formally designated the Terrorgram Collective itself as a terrorist organization. No Brazilian criminal charges arising from his Terrorgram activity have been publicly confirmed as of mid-2026; the designation is a US Treasury [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) civil sanction, not a criminal indictment.[^1]
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### Designation
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The [[US Department of State]] press release of January 13, 2025, described Ferreira as "a Terrorgram channel administrator" and "a Brazilian national residing in Brazil." The simultaneously issued [[Federal Register]] notice (Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, published January 15, 2025) formalized the OFAC designation, assigning him SDN entry number 52486 on the [[Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List]]. The OFAC record lists his address as Rua Maranhao, 1566 Apto 502, Funcionarios, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; his Brazilian passport number FD621325; and his National ID number 08388816616. His alias in the SDN list is "Ciro Daniel Ferreira."[^2]
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As a result of the designation, all property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction belonging to Ferreira are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from transactions with him. The designation activates secondary sanctions risk under section 1(b) of the executive order.[^1]
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### Role in the Terrorgram Collective
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The State Department described Ferreira as an administrator of at least six [[Telegram]] channels, operating under the broader Terrorgram Collective network of more than 200 Telegram channels that collectively produce and disseminate accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda. The Terrorgram Collective provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including against critical infrastructure and government officials. Ferreira also maintained an active presence on [[Substack]], [[X (formerly Twitter)]], [[YouTube]], and [[Quora]], with an inactive [[Instagram]] profile, consistent with the Terrorgram ecosystem's use of multiple platforms to preserve redundancy against takedowns.[^1][^3]
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In 2023, Brazilian researcher [[Michele Prado]], founder of the NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to Brazil's [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] that identified Telegram channels linked to Ferreira and other members of the Terrorgram network operating in Brazil. This report represented one of the first formal institutional flaggings of Ferreira's channels to Brazilian authorities.[^3]
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### Prior Criminal Record
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Brazilian state-level records, as reported by Brazilian media following the 2025 designation, indicate that Ferreira has two prior prison records from units in Minas Gerais, for crimes including theft, bodily injury, and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned twice, in 2015 and 2016, receiving court-issued release warrants in both instances. These offenses predated his documented Terrorgram activity and are unrelated to extremism or terrorism charges.[^4]
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### Pre-Extremism Activity
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According to OSINT sources cited in contemporaneous Brazilian and Latin American coverage, Ferreira previously directed a space in Belo Horizonte "dedicated to the promotion of the interests and rights of children and adolescents through information and communication technologies," an activity consistent with a civic or educational technology orientation before his documented involvement in accelerationist networks.[^4]
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### Aracruz Attack and Wolf Boy Winter
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The State Department's January 2025 designation listed attacks "motivated and facilitated by the group" in [[Bratislava]] (October 2022), a planned attack on New Jersey energy facilities (July 2024) and a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey (August 2024); it does not name the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] carried out by [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] on November 25, 2022.[^1] The government's sentencing memorandum against [[Dallas Humber]] lists "G.C." among people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership" and says she made "Saint cards" commemorating the shootings by J.K. and G.C.; Raw Story reported a government filing describing an October 23, 2022 chat in which Humber told [[Matthew Robert Allison]] she had direct messages with a Terrorgram user planning a racially motivated school shooting.[^5][^6]
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The researcher Michele Prado told Raw Story that a Terrorgram user with the pseudonym "[[Wolf Boy Winter]]" contributed pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of Terrorgram's primary propaganda publications, and that her 2023 report to [[Agência Brasileira de Inteligência|ABIN]] identified channels linked to that pseudonym.[^3][^6]
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### International Designations
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The January 13, 2025, action designated Terrorgram as a terrorist organization and simultaneously named three foreign administrators in three different countries, a structure reflecting the network's explicitly transnational character. Noah Licul (Croatia), designated as a "senior member," had been active in the network since at least 2019 under the alias "buntovnik" and is documented in the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] to Terrorgram personnel lineage. Hendrik-Wahl Muller (South Africa) was described as a channel administrator, parallel to Ferreira's role description.[^1]
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The Terrorgram Collective had already been designated by the [[United Kingdom]] (April 2024, SI 2024/569), [[Australia]] (F2025L00762), and [[Canada]] (SOR/2025-263) before and following the US action. None of these proscription instruments publicly named Ferreira specifically. The US action of January 13, 2025 was the first government designation to name a Brazilian national as a Terrorgram Collective administrator.[^1][^7]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: US Department of State, "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/
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[^2]: Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective, Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, Noah Licul, and Hendrik-Wahl Muller," January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim; OFAC SDN Entry 52486, sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=52486
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[^3]: GNET (Global Network on Extremism and Technology). "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/
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[^4]: CNN Brasil. "Quem e o brasileiro que integra a lista de terroristas do governo dos EUA," January 2025. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/mg/quem-e-o-brasileiro-que-integra-a-lista-de-terroristas-dos-eua/; Infobae. "Un brasileno declarado terrorista por EEUU es uno de los lideres de 'Terrorgram'," January 16, 2025. https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2025/01/16/un-brasileno-declarado-terrorista-por-eeuu-es-uno-de-los-lideres-de-terrorgram-la-red-supremacista-de-telegram/
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[^5]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf
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[^6]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
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[^7]: UK SI 2024/569, Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024; Canada Gazette SOR/2025-263, December 17, 2025; Australia F2025L00762, legislation.gov.au.
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