A former college student from the Chicago area was convicted Monday by a federal jury of attempting to provide material assistance to ISIS, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Thomas Osadzinski, a 22-year-old former student at DePaul University, was accused of designing a computer script that would make it easier for the terrorist organization to spread its message on social media, according to a DOJ press release. While many social media platforms remove ISIS propaganda materials dues to the content’s violent nature, the script developed by Osadzinski would automatically copy and preserve ISIS media postings in an organized format, allowing users to continue to conveniently access and share the content. Osadzinski, a Chicago local residing in the city when he was arrested in 2019, shared his script with individuals whom he believed to be ISIS supporters and members of pro-ISIS media organizations, but who were in fact FBI personnel running …