Wednesday 15 October 2014

NDM story #7 - Isis in duel with Twitter and YouTube to spread extremist propaganda

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/isis-twitter-youtube-message-social-media-jihadi

This article looks at the propaganda operatives from Islamic State (Isis) that are 'piggybacking' on internet hashtags and forums to hold the widest distribution of their videos. The Guardian reveals that a variety of techniques are being used to release video distributions in order to boost the extent of their extremist material on Twitter on YouTube being revealed. The fact that this is taking place contravenes UK terror laws, which is why a specialist British police squad if working with Twitter and YouTube in order to block and delete these videos and content being posted and exposed.

  • The British Police delete around 1,100 pieces of gruesome content a week on social networking sites.
  • 800 materials a week relate to Syria and Iraq.
  • Last year the removal of more than 45,000 pieces of material took place.
In my opinion, I believe that this article is very disturbing and quite disgusting in today's society. The fact that materials of people being abused are leaked on the internet is absurd and i do not understand why someone would want to do that. I do not agree with what they are doing and feel that the British Police are doing the wight thing by removing it. 

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