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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Far-left social media personality Hasan Piker, who has advocated for political violence and made veiled threats in the past, appears to be encouraging his millions of followers to build suicide drones.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Hasan Piker and his millions of social media followers.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The comments were made during a livestream of ongoing Iranian attacks against Israel, U.S. military bases, and Arab Gulf States.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Just make f**king drones. You can purchase them from, you know, you can purchase them in the online marketplace. Like, China literally sells like explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put to a DJI drone that you can purchase, like, at virtually no significant cost in comparison to, like, sophisticated equipment that you need to put together.” — Hasan Piker

🎯IMPACT: Piker has made numerous violent threats in the past, including appearing to encourage his followers to shoot U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott (R-FL) and saying “America deserved 9/11.” Recently, he appeared to electrocute his dog on a livestream.

Far-left social media personality Hasan Piker, who has advocated for political violence and made veiled threats in the past, appears to be encouraging his millions of followers to build suicide drones. While live-streaming Iranian attacks against Israel and the Arab Gulf States, the Turkish-American began discussing the declining need for suicide bombing as drone technology has advanced, specifically referencing devices like Iran‘s HESA Shahed 136 kamikaze attack drone.

“Again, that’s a Shahed drone, that’s crazy,” Piker excitedly says as an Iranian kamikaze drone slams into a target in a video. “Bro, you really actually don’t need, like—like I was thinking about this with, like, the Afghanistan, the Taliban-Pakistan fight that was taking place. And I was really thinking about this, you really don’t need suicide bombing anymore.”

“You really don’t need that anymore in drone warfare,” Piker continued, before telling those viewing his livestream: “Just make fucking drones. You can purchase them from, you know, you can purchase them in the online marketplace. Like, China literally sells like explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put to a DJI drone that you can purchase, like, at virtually no significant cost in comparison to, like, sophisticated equipment that you need to put together.”

“This is functionally, what you could get away with if you, if you facilitated, like, a somewhat difficult to pull off suicide bombing strike,” Piker added, in reference to the Shahed strike.

Hasan Piker tells his followers suicide bombing is dead, buy Shahed drones instead.

“Just make f**king drones. You can purchase them from online marketplaces. China literally sells explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put on a DJI drone. You can buy them at… pic.twitter.com/eiTPoyRn9W

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) March 3, 2026

The National Pulse reported in 2024 on Piker appearing to encourage his social media followers to shoot Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Piker, a.k.a. ‘HasanAbi,’ responded to calls by Cotton for the average American to stand up to pro-Hamas demonstrators who block bridges and road traffic with an image of an improvised gun, which at least 1.6 million people viewed.

In March of 2025, Piker was briefly banned from Twitch after suggesting that Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott should be “killed.” The incident occurred during a stream where Piker reacted to a clip featuring House Speaker Mike Johnson discussing Medicaid fraud with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. Piker declared, “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott, OK?”

Last October, Piker was accused of electrocuting his dog on a live stream.

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