Thursday, June 27, 2013

Twitter Is The New Frontier For Jihadist Propaganda

#Jihad: Report Shows Extremist Groups Flocking To Twitter -- FOX News

Twitter is the new frontier for jihadist propaganda, according to an extensive review of more than 75,000 tweets in a leading counterterrorism journal exclusively reviewed in advance of publication by Fox News.

The article, called "Tweeting for the Caliphate," was authored by independent academic investigators Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher. It will be available on Tuesday in the CTC Sentinel, a journal published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. It explored the Syrian opposition group Jabhat al-Nusra and its established links to Al Qaeda as a case study (in Syria, the Assad regime is said to allow social media activity, in part so that government officials can monitor the traffic).

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My Comment: For extremists .... social media is an incredibly useful platform to spread propaganda and/or information .... and Twitter is the ideal tool to use in linking to these sites.

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