Canada Adds 4 Entities to Terrorist List, Including Online Group Inciting Youth to Self-Harm

The Canadian government has added four additional organizations to its list of terrorist entities, including the group 764 that is known for encouraging youth to self-harm.

Public Safety Canada announced on Dec. 10 that 764, the Maniac Murder Cult (MMC), the Terrorgram Collective, and the Islamic State-Mozambique are now terrorist entities under the Criminal Code. Canada is the first country to list 764, which it describes as a “decentralized transnational network of online nihilistic violent extremists,” as a terrorist group.

Public Safety Canada said 764 members have the goal of destroying civilized society through violence and chaos, and use social media and gaming platforms to groom and extort youth into committing violent and sexual acts. Members of 764 view sexual, psychological, and physical violence as entertainment, and have disseminated instructional materials on how to carry out such activities while avoiding detection.

In February 2024, a 14-year-old member of the group from Edmonton was charged with several offences, which included child pornography and crimes related to explosives. According to authorities, the minor was active in extremist group chats and shared online content involving violence, weapons, self-harm, and sexual exploitation.

According to the RCMP, 764 members target vulnerable people like children or those struggling with mental health issues, encouraging them to commit acts like killing family pets, self-harming, attempting suicide, and other acts of violence. The group attempts to find victims in virtual spaces such as social media platforms like Telegram and Discord, and in games like Minecraft and Roblox.

Public Safety Canada said the MMC, which was founded in 2018 and is based in Russia and Ukraine, adheres to a neo-Nazi and militant accelerationist ideology. They believe in promoting “violent, nihilistic actions to promote fear and chaos,” and operate online in an attempt to promote offline violence against racial minorities, Jews, the homeless, and other “undesirables.”

At the start of 2025, a 19-year-old from Winnipeg was arrested and charged for allegedly spray-painting racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, and was later charged with four terrorism-related charges after an investigation linked him to the MMC.

The Terrorgram Collective is a network of Telegram group chats promoting white supremacist ideology, according to Public Safety Canada. The group has solicited terrorist attacks against politicians, government officials, government buildings, and energy facilities, and have posted terrorist guides and white supremacist propaganda encouraging people to carry out mass killings.

The Islamic State-Mozambique is an armed insurgent group based in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado Province that aims to replace the secular state with one under Sharia law-based governance. By May 2024, it was estimated the group’s insurgency had killed more than 6,500 people and displaced more than 1.3 million, according to Public Safety Canada.

In July, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director Dan Rogers said in a speech that one in 10 terrorism investigations at CSIS now include at least one suspect under the age of 18. He said many youth in Canada increasingly seek out purpose online, which can result in them being led in an “unfortunate direction” toward radicalization.

Rogers cited the Edmonton minor arrested for alleged links to 764, and said eroding social cohesion and increasing polarization in Canada are creating “fertile ground for radicalization.”

“They use technology to do so secretly and anonymously, seriously challenging the ability of our investigators to keep pace and to identify and prevent acts of violence,” he said.