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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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tags:
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- Organization
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- Brazil
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- Accelerationism
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- CounterExtremism
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- NeoNazi
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location: "Brazil"
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Stop Hate Brasil is a Brazilian NGO founded by researcher Michele Prado that monitors far-right extremist networks online, with a particular focus on the Terrorgram Collective's Brazilian infrastructure, and has served as a consulting partner to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security since 2023."
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Stop Hate Brasil (also rendered Stop Hate Brazil) is a Brazilian non-governmental organization founded by [[Michele Prado]] to identify, document, and counter far-right extremist content on digital platforms in Brazil, with particular emphasis on the radicalization of children and adolescents through online channels. The organization is funded in part by the [[Social Change Initiative]] and maintains a formal voluntary consulting relationship with Brazilian government agencies including [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]].[^1]
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### Activity
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Stop Hate Brasil's primary documented contribution to the investigation of Brazilian accelerationist networks was Prado's 2023 formal report to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice identifying [[Telegram]] channels linked to [[Terrorgram Collective]] members operating in Brazil, including channels associated with the pseudonym "Wolf Boy Winter" and with [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]], subsequently designated by the US government as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in January 2025. The organization has also documented the network's exploitation of gaming platforms (including [[Roblox]], [[Fortnite]], and [[Minecraft]]) and YouTube recommendation algorithms to introduce adolescents to extremist content.[^2]
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By 2024, Stop Hate Brasil had identified more than 40 violent incidents in Brazilian school settings connected to some degree with online extremist networks over a three-year span, and had flagged that at least two [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels active in Brazil had been created by adolescents rather than adults, indicating that the network had successfully recruited Brazilian minors into its content-production infrastructure. Stop Hate Brasil issued public-facing reports, referred to as the "Sons do Odio" (Sons of Hate) report series, documenting these findings for civil society audiences.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Social Change Initiative. "Michele Prado." https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/michele-prado
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[^2]: GNET. "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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