Isis's Austrian poster girl jihadi brides 'have changed their minds and want to come ho... - 1 views
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arrived in the Middle East via Turkey, 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic and 17-year-old Samra Kesinovic
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whoever is operating their pages it probably is not the girls, and that they are being used for propaganda.”
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even if they could flee, Austria’s laws bar them from returning once they have joined a foreign war.
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Two girls ages 15 and 17, who fled to Syria to join the ISIS movement are not wishing to return to their home countries. The problem, under Austria's laws they are forbidden to return for participating in a foreign war. An interesting aspect of the story is it said to have been ISIS members who were operating their social media accounts for propaganda purposes.
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.
Inside the World of ISIS Propaganda Music | Mother Jones - 0 views
Terrorists' supply routes from Turkey cut off during army offensive in northern Syria -... - 0 views
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This is an article from Russia today that talks about supposed gains that the Syrian government has made with the support of Russian air power. It has an accompanying video of the Syrian Armed Forces fighting against rebels. Overall a piece of propaganda, but interesting footage nonetheless of Syrian Armed Forces using a variety of US and Russian-made weapons.
Syria | Reports from the front lines | [English Subtitles] - YouTube - 0 views
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A Russian news report from Zvezda (Star) channel, including interviews with pro-Syrian army militia commanders. The video is all in Russian but includes English subtitles and takes an interesting look at the system of tunnels various groups are using in this conflict. I chose this because it was a another look at the current conflict from a Russian channel but without the extreme propaganda one finds in the Russia Today articles.
Egyptian Cyber Army: The hacker group attacking ISIS propaganda online - 0 views
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There's a new hacking group in cyberspace, and it's going after the Islamic State's online propaganda. Less than 24 hours after ISIS social media accounts posted a threatening message from the group's leader, the audio recording was replaced with a song and its transcript with a logo resembling that of the Egyptian military, accompanied by a writing in Arabic that read "Egyptian Cyber Army."
ISIS Claims Orphanage Being Used to Train Next Generation of Jihadis - 0 views
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"The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has released a video that shows children being groomed to become its next generation of jihadis at an orphanage in the Iraqi city of Mosul. With a background of Arabic prayer music, the propaganda video portrays ISIS as looking after the children, who they claim have lost their parents to "martyrdom," according to U.S.-based jihadi monitoring group SITE Intelligence."
The misleading videos which don't show the Brussels attacks - 0 views
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.
Ignorant jihadis 'have bought into fantasy fuelled by social media' | World news | The ... - 0 views
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boys aged between 10 and 20 who had been radicalised by the Taliban.
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They all told the same story, sa
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“They all had impoverished backgrounds, they were illiterate, their families had been approached by the Taliban and were coerced into abandoning their children, they were lambs to the slaughter,” she said.
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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.
ISIS Supporters: Syria Will Be A "Graveyard For Russians" - 0 views
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ISIS supporters and Syrian rebel groups are vowing to turn Syria into a "graveyard for Russians," launching what collectively amounts to an anti-Russia propaganda campaign that in part is calling on fighters to prepare for war against the major world power. Jaish al-Islam, a coalition of Islamist units battling the Syrian regime, is especially contributing to the online fight. This comes after the Russian military upped their bombing efforts against ISIS bases
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