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The State Department says Italy-based Autistici/Inventati provided encrypted communications, hosting and anonymity tools used by Rose City Antifa, Jane’s Revenge, foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups overseas, prompting the United States to designate the collective as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
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The Trump administration has imposed a global terrorism designation on an Italy-based technology collective that U.S. officials say supplied secure digital infrastructure to violent far-left groups in the United States and Europe while also serving networks connected to Hamas, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and other designated terrorist organizations.
Autistici/Inventati, referred to by the State Department as the A/I Collective, was targeted as part of a broader U.S. action outlined in a government announcement and a State Department memo reported by Fox News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration views the collective as an important technological enabler of violent extremist organizations.
“Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West,” Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Today, the United States sanctioned Autistici/Inventati – a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world.”
According to the State Department, A/I operates a sophisticated digital ecosystem that includes encrypted email and chat services, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming systems, along with technology intended to conceal users’ identities and locations.
The department alleges those services are not merely general-purpose privacy tools but are deliberately structured to assist extremist networks.
“These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks – all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law,” the State Department memo states.
The Specially Designated Global Terrorist designation generally prevents Americans and U.S. financial institutions from conducting business with the sanctioned entity and freezes property or financial interests under U.S. jurisdiction.
Violations can carry civil or criminal penalties.
The State Department says the collective screens prospective users for ideological compatibility and makes its services available specifically to organizations aligned with far-left political movements.
A/I says its infrastructure supports approximately 16,000 email accounts, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists and 10,000 blogs operating on a custom platform.
U.S. officials allege that some of those systems have been used to publish tactical material, identify potential targets, circulate instructions and distribute statements taking responsibility for attacks.
One organization identified by the department is Portland-based Rose City Antifa.
The memo says Rose City Antifa used A/I infrastructure to organize or encourage criminal activity and to circulate information about federal law enforcement personnel.
Among the examples cited was an online flyer encouraging supporters to direct laser pointers toward U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopters.
“All you need is a laser. Leave home – they can see where the laser is coming from,” the flyer stated. “Go to a park, a field, or some other public place, and once the clock strikes 9 unleash your beam at the cop copter. Mask up. Coordinate with friends to throw a laser party!”
“Let’s take back the night together!” the message continued. “It won’t take many of us to ground the helicopters!”
According to the State Department, at least one person acted on the call.
Federal records cited in the memo show that a man later pleaded guilty to pointing a laser at a CBP helicopter, forcing the aircraft to abandon its intended landing.
The administration also says Rose City Antifa used A/I services to circulate personal information about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and promote attacks on ICE agents both “in their homes” and in public.
The federal action reaches beyond Portland.
The State Department identified another far-left media organization that describes itself as a “tool” allowing militants around the world to distribute “essential information” intended to be “acted upon.”
According to the memo, that organization uses A/I systems to publish communiqués and calls to action involving U.S.-designated foreign terrorist groups.
The department says information disseminated through the network has involved the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, among others.
The administration has separately taken action involving Hamas-linked networks.
The State Department’s findings describe a common technology provider being used by multiple extremist organizations; they do not establish that Rose City Antifa itself was formally operating under Hamas or the IRGC.
Another U.S.-based group identified in the memo is Jane’s Revenge, a militant abortion-rights organization that emerged prominently after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
The group declared “open season” on pro-life organizations and threatened escalating attacks.
According to the State Department, Jane’s Revenge used A/I infrastructure to “publish official communiqués and claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts and to incite copycat attacks.”
Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility for the May 2022 firebombing of a crisis pregnancy center in Madison, Wisconsin.
A message associated with the organization appeared online the following day.
“This was only a warning. We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days,” the message said. “This is not a mere ‘difference of opinion’ as some have framed it. We are literally fighting for our lives. We will not sit still while we are killed and forced into servitude. We have run thin on patience and mercy for those who seek to strip us of what little autonomy we have left.”
Additional postings later claimed responsibility for vandalism at pregnancy centers around the country, including smashed windows and doors and graffiti.
The State Department memo says four members of the organization were later federally charged with “‘conspiracy against rights’ through threats of force and intimidation.”
Federal officials also cited A/I infrastructure in connection with militant opposition to construction of a law enforcement training center in Atlanta.
The memo says far-left activists used the collective’s technology during violent attempts to “prevent the construction of a law enforcement training center.”
The administration alleges the same digital network has played a role in extremist activity across Europe.
Groups in France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands allegedly used A/I services this year to claim responsibility for attacks targeting rail infrastructure and to circulate instructions for producing improvised incendiary devices intended to disrupt railway systems.
Anarchists who claimed responsibility for sabotaging infrastructure supporting the Transalpine Pipeline also allegedly relied on A/I systems.
The pipeline is a major route for crude oil moving into Central Europe.
The State Department separately identified Vulkangruppe, a far-left organization blamed for repeated attacks against German infrastructure dating to 2011.
The group claimed responsibility for a January attack that caused a power outage affecting approximately 45,000 households in Berlin.
According to the U.S. government, Vulkangruppe also used A/I technology.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration intends to use financial sanctions against organizations it believes facilitate politically motivated violence.
“Far-left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear,” Bessent said. “Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.”
Rubio similarly framed the designation as part of a wider effort to deny violent organizations safe technological and financial infrastructure.
“There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities,” Rubio said. “We will use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life from terrorist coercion.”
The action follows President Donald Trump’s 2025 declaration designating Antifa a terrorist organization.
The latest sanctions expand the administration’s strategy beyond individual militant groups by targeting a technology provider that federal officials say supplied communications and anonymity services to multiple organizations operating across national borders.
The State Department’s case against A/I rests on the allegation that its infrastructure allowed extremist organizations to communicate securely, distribute propaganda and tactical information, conceal identities and coordinate activity while reducing the likelihood of detection by law enforcement.
By designating the collective itself, the administration is attempting to disrupt the common digital infrastructure it says connects an array of militant movements, including domestic Antifa organizations, abortion-rights extremists, European anarchist networks and media channels used to distribute material involving foreign terrorist organizations.
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