Is Twitter Supercharging Jihadist Recruitment.

Zero Degrees Of al Qaeda -- J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy

How Twitter is supercharging jihadist recruitment.

There's a new jihadist recruiter on the Internet. Based in San Francisco and backed by a multimillion dollar bankroll, the recruiter orchestrates thousands of introductions every day, connecting people at risk of radicalization with extremist clerics and terrorist propagandists -- even facilitating online meetings with hardcore al Qaeda members.

The recruiter is Twitter, and it's shaking up the world of online radicalization in ways both large and small.

Here's how this nefarious operator works. First, you sign up by going to Twitter.com and creating an account, which can even be anonymous. Then you pick someone to follow.

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My Comment: This is a disturbing read .... but such is the power of social media.