When you concentrate majority of your efforts on one group, so many others slip on by. The growth of radical groups getting their voices out on the interwebs is growing and the next ISIS is waiting to be heard – PB/TK
Twitter Campaign Against ISIS Allows Other Jihadi Groups to Grow Online – By Jack Moore / Aug 16 2017
Twitter is making in-roads in the battle to prevent the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and its supporters using the platform as a mouthpiece, but its single-minded focus on the jihadist group is allowing competing radical Islamists to surpass the group and maintain a strong online presence, according to a new report.
Researchers from VOX-Pol, an academic network that includes professionals from Dublin City University and the University of Sussex, said the platform was becoming less effective for ISIS “due to the rapid takedown rate of pro-IS accounts from the site” and “substantial and aggressive disruption,” using another acronym for ISIS.
In one example, Twitter removed almost two-thirds of the Twitter accounts posting pro-ISIS content within 17 hours, the report, entitled “Disrupting Daesh, Measuring the Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts,” said.
But the focus on ISIS has taken the site’s focus off of other jihadist groups. “The platform is now a much less conducive environment for the group than it once was,” said Maura Conway, VOX-Pol coordinator and professor of international security at Dublin City University.
“However, this has enabled other violent jihadi groups to maintain their presence and to continue to spread their message with much less hindrance than that faced by IS,” she added.
The report analyzed 722 pro-ISIS accounts, with 57,574 tweets, against 451 accounts supporting “other jihadist groups,” with 62,156 tweets.
Continue to newsweek.com article: http://www.newsweek.com/twitter-campaign-against-isis-allowing-other-jihadi-groups-grow-online-651268
