ISIS And Social Media Analysis

The United States is fronting the conflict against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; therefore, we feel strongly inclined to support the inhibition of online recruiting tactics used by ISIL. Previous attempts to thwart the online presence of ISIL have been misguided and incomprehensive - and have thus faltered against high expectations. Our reasoning for this stance is because in the past year alone, an estimated hundreds of recruits have joined ISIL through online mediums - additionally, ISIL has encouraged and coaxed recruits into committing domestic

Although the Nazi regime did not have computers, the social influence of propaganda was still successful. Propaganda is used as a tool to manipulate and provoke behaviors to further the intentions of the group. When people already have pre-existing beliefs, they are enhanced by propaganda, which makes it a useful, but dangerous tool when the intentions of the group are to harm those who have different beliefs. Similar to the Nazis, the intentions of ISIS is to protect the land and, according to the Quran, only Muslims may live in the caliphate while obeying and promoting their government efforts. Many online ISIS supporters will never actually come into contact with ISIS soldiers, but the power of their social media support system is still strong enough to worry the U.S. government that they may have gained followers who reside on American soil and are a significant threat to national

Terrorists are actively targeting American youth through social media to solicit empathy and recruits. The Counter-terrorism proposal targets those same young Americans. The proposed campaign recommends the use of black propaganda in the social media sphere to make terrorist organizations seem distasteful, unappealing and boring.

Over the past year or two, newspapers, radio stations, and news broadcasts have been covering the rapid ascent of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. But they have spread far beyond those material boundaries, reaching into the minds and homes of young people across the globe. These young people are led to believe that ISIS is saving the world, not harming it and that they must partake in the fight for religious dictatorship. They are instructed over the internet to perform acts of terrorism in their own country, known as domestic terrorism. Due to the dramatic increase in terrorist activity

They know that most of muslims do not accept their ideology so they use social media to brainwash young muslims and new converts to join them. ISIS preys on vulnerable and disillusioned western youth from economically disadvantaged families that many of them had criminal background. They rarely go to mosque to recruit. These young people want to become hero. There are many in ISIS territory that chose to join ISIS to put food on table for their family. They see no other way out. Either they have to die of hunger or fight ISIS and get killed.

In a study, it was revealed that there was a significant amount of active ISIS members through the social media platform of Twitter. According to an article by Jonathon Morgan and J.M. Berger, it was estimated that between September and December in 2014, there was roughly 46,000 Twitter accounts belonged to ISIS supporters (Morgan and Berger). While this might not seem as good news to people from outside the group, for ISIS, it is their main method of communicating themselves with the rest of the world. It is during this stage, the stage prior to the active phase, that group members of ISIS want to grow in order to proceed towards becoming a much more stable institution worldwide. While it might not seem right that ISIS members are broadcasting their messages to their people back home, they are simply following the ever so common characteristic of becoming known from Eric Hoffer’s book of stable

After the infamous 9/11 attacks against the U.S., the country has put in place various measures aimed at securing its borders against foreign threats. However, despite the increased security measures, terrorist groups still find ways through which they can perpetrate their heinous attacks. In particular, these groups have taken advantage of the Internet as a means to circumvent the security apparatus put in place by the U.S. One may, therefore, raise a question as to whether social media platforms have made it possible for foreign groups to undermine the U.S. intelligence system. This paper will explicate how terrorist organizations and other similar groups have used the Internet, and in particular, social media platforms to attain their agendas by recruiting U.S. nationals, enabling terrorist groups to overcome intelligence measures utilized by the U.S. by focusing on the following questions:

ISIS has had made many effects happen the in present world. One of them is recruiting people from outside nations using social media to come and join. Presidential candidate Donald Trump once said, “ISIS is recruiting through the internet. ISIS is using the internet better than we are using the internet, and it was our idea.” This quote from Trump is

That call to action can come in many forms of media and to a global audience. “Terrorist recruitment videos, often released online, have been tailored to appeal to various audiences. A propaganda video, which can still be watched on YouTube of captured U.S. soldier, Bowe R. Bergdahl, compares what seems to be his good treatment under al-Qaeda, to those of U.S.-run prisoner of war camps” (Philipp).

In order for ISIS to continue a large social media campaign, they have to expose themselves while also providing U.S. officials capabilities of their organization. Social media computing provides ISIS with multiple cyber resource data. “ISIS uses social media as well as encrypted online communications to spread message” (Sanchez, np, 2015). Blocking their use of social media accounts may be effective for a short period of time but does not affect ISIS’s future strategies. One strategy for social media used is to spark single attacks from people who believe in ISIS’s ideology beliefs. Regardless of where people are, mental illness people get tricked in playing a role in terrorism. The propaganda that ISIS provides are directed to people who are already prone to violence. Social networking is a form of social engineering which includes how spreading information is conducted whether it be a visualization or virus of some sort with a goal to radicalize a

In terms of proselytizing, the Internet is useful in advancing propaganda material to Muslims within their own national boundaries and throughout Western countries such as Europe, London, United States, and Canada. The internet is being used for a wide variety of applications such as radicalization, recruitment, and planning. Online Islamic magazines, articles, messages, and files are being transmitted to every part of the globe. By late 2007, there were at least 100 English-speaking Islamic websites intended to recruit Muslims in Western countries (Michael 2009, 143). Al Qaeda can build

This is another form of terrorist group recruitment and it is usually broader and resembles propaganda. In this recruitment method, mass media is utilized, such as televised advertisements for groups that are within reach of the government and legislation (Reich, 1998). It may also include media channels and websites whose domain names and passwords are in the public domain. The terrorist groups that use this strategy usually target regional demographic or population strata including young teenagers who usually gather at a particular place or members of a unique religious congregation (Reich, 1998). This method of recruitment is usually indirect since physical communication may not be sustainable or

Picture mass pandemonium and chaos, what once was a peaceful world where society can freely go online and enjoy hysterical videos and share pictures of family events and things they enjoy, are now poisoned with streams of Isis beheading videos and the latest victim of the ruthless regime. One prime example of this is how Isis is successfully recruiting and terrorizing people through social media and using fear tactics to worry us. They are also showing that they have the numbers, not only on the ground, but through people who sympathize with them and support their cause. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that Americans are gravitating toward the militant organization by engaging with ISIS online”, just by simply posting violent videos or reaching troubled youth, they are using the one thing we did not expect, social media, to recruit people.

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Today as in November 18th, 2016, the way that a lot of young women are developing a sense of self construct is through the use of social media, specifically Twitter. Self construct is defined as “a social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is 'constructed' through cultural or social practice”. Twitter allows its users to from all over the world to connect by viewing each others tweets through the use of hashtagging similar interests. Unfortunately, because of how public Twitter is, terrorist groups such as ISIS, have been using the hashtags as a way of spreading propaganda and gathering those who feel “isolated” and seeking a “community”. This is what happened to a girl who goes by an online persona named Alex. Alex viewed one of