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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Part 2 of Assessing Domestic Extremism A Year After #January6 "Where Has Online Extremism Moved Over The Past Year?" clintwatts.substack.com/p/where-has-on…
Some takeaways in online DOMEX over last year. 1 - Telegram new home for many extremist collectives 2 - Gab substitute for FB/Twitter, 3 - smaller platform worry about is GETTR (Threats violence)
Preferences for extremists on social media mirror rest of society to a degree. Younger generation quicker adapt to newer, more advanced tech platforms. Older generation extremists want something like Facebook.
Last one, big miss, podcasts - extremists have moved to video and AUDIO, which reaches mass audiences more difficult to moderate.

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20 Years After #September11th thankful for opportunity @USArmy @FBI @CTCWP to work with amazing Americans & allies tracking down terrorists behind 9/11 & their spawn. I learned so much serving alongside the best people I've ever met in pursuit of the worst people on the planet.
#September11 attacks changed course of my life like many other Americans, I’ve learned a lot, but in my work and travels in the 'War on Terror', online and in the real world, I’ve arrived at no hot takes, no definitive conclusions, no exact theories or absolutes.
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As we see this first VBIED attack at Kabul airport, things to watch for to understand terrorists strength is frequency, pace & synchronization of attacks. If we see more tomorrow, shorter times between attacks, points to significant terrorist capability in Kabul #Afghanistan
This would be a significant negative indicator for viability of Kabul Airport as an extraction point
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For those confused on ISIS-K why they’d want to attack US & Taliban, lots of intricacies but short, summary version - Taliban aligned to Al Qaeda remnants (Haqqani Network, etc), ISIS rivals of al Qaeda, biggest difference between ISIS and al Qaeda is generational
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