(Chicago Sun-Times) A federal jury on Monday convicted a onetime student at DePaul University of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State in the form of a computer script that helped disseminate the terrorist group’s propaganda.
Jurors at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse listened to roughly two weeks of evidence about Thomas Osadzinski, 22, who was first charged in November 2019. The case was believed to be the first of its kind — a terrorism case brought against a U.S.-based defendant involving computer code.
Prosecutors said Osadzinski designed a process that uses a computer script to make Islamic State propaganda, including videos, more conveniently accessed and disseminated by users on the social media platform Telegram.
