Twitter CEO: ISIS Threatened to Assassinate Me for Deleting Jihadist Accounts - 0 views
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After we started suspending their accounts, s
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Twitter and their management should be assassinated,"
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social media giant's platform has played a central role in ISIS's attempts to spread their terrorist propaganda across the globe.
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Threats from ISIS extend to twitter as it threatened to assassinate the CEO Dick Costolo for deactivating ISIS held accounts. ISIS has also called upon citizens within the countries of twitter's operating facilities to attack Twitter employees on, currently Twitter has offices in the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Canada.
We shouldn't stop terrorists from tweeting - The Washington Post - 0 views
Paul Sedra (sedgate) on Twitter - 0 views
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The latest from Paul Sedra (@sedgate). Avid Egypt watcher and historian, Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, intermittent blogger at http://thawrathoughts.blogspot.com. Vancouver, Canada
Saudi Women Right to Drive Activists Tap Twitter - 0 views
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This article, from the Times, discusses the transition seen in Saudi Arabia after the death of Kind Abdullah. It specifically discusses the story of a woman, named Loujain Al Hathloul, who drove illegally and was stopped by police. The police took her passport and refused to let her drive. She took to Twitter about the experience as she sat for about a day in her car until she was arrested.
CNN Removes Reporter Diana Magnay From Israel-Gaza After 'Scum' Tweet - 0 views
BBC News - #BBCtrending: Libya's hashtag of hope - 1 views
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Tawfik Bensaud was 15 when he started his pro- democracy activism online in Benghazi, in the early days of Libya's 2011 revolution.
Female fighters of #YPG in #Kobane ! - 0 views
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This is a tweet of a drawing by Sazan Slemani, a Kurdish woman who is very active on Twitter in support of the female fighters of the YPG, a branch of the PKK. In the drawing, a female PKK soldier is depicted putting her hair up in a ponytail, as if in preparation for a battle, and as her hair flows down from her hands, it changes into the shape of a gun. While art critique is not exactly my forte, I found this image to be really moving. I thought it was particularly interesting how long hair, which typically symbolizes femininity, was paired with something traditionally masculine like assault rifles and war.
Twitter, terror and free speech: Should Twitter block Islamic snuff videos? | The Econo... - 0 views
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YouTube removed one version of the video, citing a violation of their policy on violent content. On Tuesday, Twitter announced a new policy that it would remove images and video of the deceased at the request of family member
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g #ISISMediaBlackout
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The logical incoherence of this statement aside, is disseminating offensive material the same thing as promoting it? It is conceivable that the video could incite potential terrorists and others harboring anti-American sentiments to copycat acts of violence. But it is equally true that content of this kind wakes people up t
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The author of this article strongly opposes Social Media companies, specifically Twitter censoring ISIS related materials on their website. The author argues it violates free speech and the democratic principles associated with the website, arguing censoring a beheading video would be a slippery slope for future content.
How ISIS Games Twitter - The Atlantic - 1 views
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strong, organic support online.
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strategies that inflate and control its message.
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using social media to recruit, radicalize and raise funds,
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Author J.M. Berger discusses ISIS's strategy on Twitter, comparing their highly skilled techniques on this platform to the likes of a P.R./ marketing team working for a Western corporation. Berger goes on to discuss programs that automatically post tweets to users accounts, an app they developed that provides updates, and an intricate system able to surpass Twitter's spam and security teams.
ISIS Tactics Illustrate Social Media's New Place In Modern War | TechCrunch - 0 views
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modern warfare, where online propaganda plays a central role.
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ISIS makes use of its decentralized structur
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propaganda tools is an app called “The Dawn of Glad Tidings,”
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Beheading Video Stirs Debate On Social Media Censorship : NPR - 0 views
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As an American journalist,
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determining what is good or bad for their users
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Twitter and others being proactive about censoring this information start to engage in a slippery slope
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The beheading of James Foley by the Islamic State triggered debate. David Greene talks to Robert Hernandez, assistant professor at USC Annenberg, about censorship with new tech platforms like Twitter.
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The beheading of James Foley by the Islamic State triggered debate. David Greene talks to Robert Hernandez, assistant professor at USC Annenberg, about censorship with new tech platforms like Twitter.
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The beheading of James Foley by the Islamic State triggered debate. David Greene talks to Robert Hernandez, assistant professor at USC Annenberg, about censorship with new tech platforms like Twitter.
Women Rights (@women_rights) | Twitter - 0 views
Al-Qaida and ISIS Use Twitter Differently. Here's How and Why. - NationalJournal.com - 1 views
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Al-Qaida has an Internet presence nearly two decades old
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their separate techniques not only reveal key divisions between the two terrorist groups, but also illustrate the depths of extremism that ISIS will plumb—and that al-Qaida won't.
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Social media's public and instantaneous nature is ideal for reaching ISIS's target audience—young, disillusioned Westerners who are ripe for radicalization—and it gives them a sense of community.
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This article contrasts communication techniques of Al-Qaida and ISIS. It outlines how ISIS communication strategy uses more dominant forms of social media such as facebook, youtube, and twitter while Al-Qaida still uses web pages, forums, and their own magazine they publish to speak to their audience.