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A year before Islamic State established its extremist caliphate in Syria and Iraq, Abdulmunam Almushawah noticed a disturbing development from more than 1,000 miles away in Saudi Arabia.
The head of a program financed by the Saudi government that tracks jihadists online said he saw new trends emerging among the militants as early as 2013. They were forming technical groups to help radicals send encrypted messages. There was a flurry of activity in French, and calls for jihad in Europe were mounting. Two years later, there were massacres in Paris, first at magazine Charlie Hebdo in January and then at multiple targets in November.
“We understood that they had been building today’s reality,” Almushawah said in an interview at his base in Riyadh. "What happens in real life has a previous shadow in the electronic world.”
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WNU Editor: I have been posting stories on how these militant organizations have been using social media to spread their message and to keep contacts with their followers for years .... but Facebook and Google are only acting now ?!?!?!?! For tech companies that are always far ahead on the curve, they are hopelessly behind on this one. Same for the law enforcement agencies who have been mandated to stop this radical social media presence.
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