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n Twitter using military pseudonyms,

The BBC spoke to a number of social networks, all of which said they did not actively monitor their sites for content promoting terrorism, but rather responded to requests from governments and individuals to remove offending material.

r Twitter said the company would remove a reported post that violated its rules.

Facebook and YouTube, have been more successful in removing extreme content.

Many of the militants on Twitter redirect users to their Kik accounts.

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One Ask.fm account offered advice on how to join Isis fighters in Iraq, as well as what weapons one could expect to be equipped with on arrival.

Twitter's terms ban threats of violence and the "furtherance of illegal activities" on the site.

rminated any account registered by a member of a foreign terrorist organisation - as designated by the US secretary of state - and used in an official capacity to further its interests.

Twitter app called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, or just Dawn.

way to keep up on the latest news about the jihadi group.

Once you sign up, the app will post tweets to your account

spaced out to avoid triggering Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms

organized hashtag campaigns

repetitively tweet hashtags at certain times of day so that they trend on the social network. 

ISIS hashtag consistently outperforms that of the group’s main competitor in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, even though the two groups have a similar number of supporters online.

ISIS also uses hashtags to focus-group messaging and branding concepts, much like a Western corporation might.

ISIS does have legitimate support online—but less than it might seem.

users consent to allowing ISIS to post to their social-media accounts. To avoid Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms, Berger noted, the app even spaces out its posts.

27,000 Twitter accounts that mentioned the ISIS positively.

40,000 tweets in a single day,

700,000 accounts discussed the terrorist group.

ISIS tries to get its content to trend globally.

using a #worldcup2014

“When an account gets shut down, a new one is immediately created, and they use other guys to promote the [new] account,” Truvé tells me. “It’s kind of a whack-a-mole thing.”

“The volume of those tweets was enough to make any search for ‘Baghdad’ on Twitter generate the image among its first results,” Berger noted, “which is certainly one means of intimidating the city’s residents.”

, propaganda has one crucial deficiency: It’s not the truth.

I don't want any government or industry to censor what I can and cannot say to my community in my attempt to ethically inform them

GREENE: Let me just make sure I understand this because it seems like a very important point - you're saying the New York Post, they are journalists; they made the decision on their own. You might say that it was a bad decision, but it was a news organization, a publisher, so to speak, making a decision about what to publish. Twitter, in the eyes of many of us, you know, is a platform for us to share. And that's a different thing for them to censor you or I or other people in terms of what we want to share or not.

Yeah, I would look at it as if the printing press operators decided that they wanted to censor the New York Post, right? That's if we view Twitter as a platform. Printing press operators wouldn't shape a newspaper

these organizations are really sophisticated with their propaganda, and this is just one video of many different types of strategies that they employ.

that by allowing this video to be available, it is helping ISIS - these militants - spread their propaganda

we were to have a technology company censoring images from the Vietnam War, think of the iconic images that would be censored and blanked.

Viewing a video, I feel like you need to make that decision. You need to make that decision. The government shouldn't make that decision for you. A tech company shouldn't make it for you.

these are the images that changed the tone, the country, the direction of that war

This one here is not the government censoring. This is a tech company that is censoring. Now, again, it's their platform. It's their rules. But it is something to be aware o