These “cyberarmies” battling it out on Facebook are resorting to a bizarre weapon of choice to knock each other down.
Moustafa Ayad is the Executive Director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), where he monitors and tracks extremist group activity online.
Alt-right and Islamic “akh-right” online communities are coming together in support for the Taliban.
Admins on the Nazi Facebook pages and Telegram channels say they are linked to the Egyptian Army—one says he was “an officer in [President] al-Sisi’s military intelligence.”
The next generation of ISIS supporters is turning to Facebook and American pop culture memes to entice new recruits as attacks around the world surge.
The jihadist group’s attempts to mimic Russian social media interference in American politics is painfully obvious—for now.
Facebook and YouTube say they have scrubbed tens of thousands of violent extremists posts. But we found 105 from the most dangerous preachers of jihadist terror.