This Politico article on Islamic State exploitation of GETTR is based on our research into terrorist groups and their supporters online. This is just the latest attempt by these groups to gain a foothold on large, small and niche platforms. Thread (1/6) politico.com/news/2021/08/0…
We have previously documented how terrorist groups and their supporters have developed a toolbox of tactics and strategies to evade detection on Facebook. In this report ISD delved into the working mechanisms of those groups. (2/6) bbc.com/news/technolog…
In the wake of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISD monitored the real-time hijacking of popular hashtags across Twitter by supporters. This included the use of sock puppet accounts and bots to pump out content from Telegram channels. (3/6) npr.org/2019/11/01/775…
We unearthed and led the analysis of the largest known repository of Islamic State content on the open web with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, providing in-depth analysis for policymakers and practitioners. (4/6) isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
We found large footprints of al-Qaeda and Islamic State strategists and their manifestos across Facebook and YouTube, highlighting a gap in Arabic language moderation and understanding of key terrorist ideologues and texts. (5/6) thedailybeast.com/al-qaedas-mast…
This is only a small part of our ongoing efforts to blunt the impact of disinformation, hate, terrorist and extremist mobilisation online (6/6) isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
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