Perhaps the most disturbing is the weapons section, which features manuals on how to create explosives and chemical weapons.
I think this is very concerning and it should not be easily accessible. People should not be able to learn this information easily outside.
We prohibit the use of Twitter’s services by violent extremist groups,” they said. “Users may not affiliate with organizations that—whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform—use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes."
When the video spoke about the use of twitter by ISIS they talked about how they framed themselves as making a good difference. This is how they get around this.
“It is clear that this video was ‘pushed’ to many innocent New Zealanders by various apps,” he said. “We have had reports that it also ‘auto-played’ to some people who did not even know what it was.”
This relates to how the video talks about the push of ISIS propaganda and how that different accounts are used to push out information. People are coming across it even when they are not seeking it out.
And no users reported the post to Facebook’s content moderators during the live stream, an important signal for the company to catch and take down harmful content before it spreads virally across the site.
I find this highly concerning. I am actually shocked that this happened.
They are the publisher, not just the postman.”
I think this is a very powerful and important quote. Social media needs to be held accountable and not let things that are harmful spread. They have a responsibility to monitor what is being published, they do have control so they should not idly sit by.
isis posted new footage of a young, blue-eyed British boy executing a prisoner with a bullet to the back of the head.
I wonder why them using people who speak English and are British are actually helpful for getting new recruits when you would think content like this would horrify most people.
Soldiers are learning that social media is an effective way to keep track of the enemy—but also that they are likewise being tracked.
It is very possible that they could post, false misleading information. Especially since some ISIS accounts are posing to be in different countries than they actually are which can cause a lot of misleading.
Last year, the most-talked-about event on Twitter was not a silly meme or a feel-good story: It was the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed by a coordinated team of isis gunmen.
In the video it talked about how the twitter accounts mentioned horror stories of children's brains being blown out in order to get attention and followers. This tactic makes sense the most talked about story was about terror attacks and not feel good stories instead.