U.s. Government And Terrorism

Domestic terrorist groups are violent extremists that want to attack the U.S. from the inside. Their intent is to frighten, pressure, and/or influence national principles. Today’s terrorist organizations are using cyberspace to spread their message. Training and online recruitment are also being made available by the Internet and social media websites. Some of the acts are lone-wolf attacks and others are collective attacks. Some examples of domestic terrorist groups that use cyberspace are Army of God, Sovereign Citizens, and Phineas Priesthood. The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report on terrorism, stating that more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists (Henderson, 2015). Terrorist

Besides friends using social media to connect with other friends or families keeping in touch with other relatives who are at a distance, in the recent years, terrorists have taken advantage of social media and used it as a platform to threaten and send jaw dropping messages to some of the most popular outlets across the nation. For this paper, I will examine how terrorists have used social media as propaganda. I will also analyze the trends in media and terrorism, and how it has provided access for the promotion of the violent messages as well as allowing the news of terrorist attacks and assassinations to reach many parts of the world within a matter of minutes.

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

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.

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

ISIS' propaganda arm has created brochures on how to get there and what to pack, and recruiters can arrange for an ISIS member to meet new recruits in Turkey and help them across the Syrian border. The idea is to remove potential barriers of entry into ISIS rather than create them, helping huge numbers of foreign fighters to swell their forces in the Middle East.” This support the idea of how social media is the main way of recruiting of this organization and how it is very effective in preparing new recruits. A study from University of Chicago and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Counter-Terrorism Policy Center established an idea among people in the United States thought to be ISIS advocates, being U.S.-born citizens and involved their own society.

Since the mid 1980’s, the internet has proven to be an extremely effective means of communication, with its ability to reach an ever increasing audience worldwide. The development of sophisticated technologies has created a network with a largely global reach and relatively almost no barriers of entry. The internet, quite simply, has made our lives easier. It provides us with the ability to share and receive vast amounts information at the click of a button, get our shopping done online and delivered to your doorstep, or even getting our banking done without ever leaving the house. The benefits of the internet are seemingly endless. However, in recent years, terrorist organisations have began to exploit this technology for the purposes of

Infamous terrorist group ISIS and their simplistic, yet effective methods of targeting the populous of numerous countries via social media have become a negative impact worldwide over the past few years. Terrorist attacks in the United States and other countries are becoming more prevalent, including the spread of toxic falsities. Popular sites like: Facebook, Twitter and World Star Hip-hop come to mind as a medium to the masses. This uncensored content sparks disgust with the populous with their governments and the future of those countries. With a surge of technology usage in our daily lives, this leaves the population, primarily young adults, susceptible

The Islamic State of Iraq utilizes social media to their advantage in order to recruit and spread propaganda. Why did they post a hit list of U.S. service members on social media? Some argue that their tactics and techniques are meant to strike fear into people while drawing them into radicalization. The effects of ISIS uploading data on social media websites creates a psychological effect on people while also giving away capabilities of the organization during their cyber warfare progression. Some of their capabilities that they claim to have is the ability to hack government servers and databases but there is a lack of evidence supporting that claim. While most of the names on the list can be found on the public domain, ISIS claimed to have received the names through hacking government systems. The effects of this event supports recruitment for the

The information age has had enormous and very positive impacts on globalization. Nations are able to interact with each other in ways that were not possible before the emergence of the internet. However, with the good, there is always bad, and in the case of technological advances and interconnectedness, domestic extremism has been able to exploit the benefits and convenience of the internet and globalization to harm the American society from within. Globalization and technology have improved the possibilities for domestic extremists to recruit, operate, and communicate from anywhere in the world. The internet has become a fundamental part of every domestic extremist organization in the U.S., and they can quickly mobilize entire communities and propagate messages in a matter of minutes all around the country.

This paper will focus on the issue of government surveillance on local citizens social media. This paper will try to provide a variety of pros and cons about government surveillance on social media, and it will try to answer the question of how surveillance on our countries local citizens can reduce or control crime and terrorism in the United States.

As social media has become more prevalent in our society, terrorist groups, such as ISIS, presence through platforms such as Twitter or Facebook has increased as well. Over 46,000 accounts on Twitter were ISIS supporters as of 2015 (Merchant). These type of extremist accounts target users by promoting the dignifying aspect of ISIS instead of the gory details about their jihadist culture. This strategy is very effective on younger generations who appeal to the struggle of the messages displayed by the Islamic State. Since social media apps such as, Twitter or Facebook, are so accessible, these terrorist organizations have an even easier time taking advantage of the opportunity propagated by the companies. Social Media provides an outlet for terrorist groups because it gives them a medium to recruit people worldwide and implements and system where they can become untraceable.

Evidence shows that government efforts to stop terror plots in the United States alone have paid off. Since 2001, there have been sixty publicly known attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S., and fifty-six have been successfully thwarted (Carafano and Zuckerman). These plots could not have been stopped without the help of the NSA and other intelligence agencies collecting valuable information through phone service providers and tech companies. This proves that having a powerful intelligence network with the ability to monitor the once-private activities of

Also, groups religiously inspired terrorism have developed plans to counter efforts to suspend their accounts or discredit their messages in the social media. The EUROPOL, 2015 reports that the accounts have multiplied of groups that are spreading propaganda and to use a range of social media platforms. The terrorist group propaganda material is broadly disseminated through social media – including mainstream platforms such as Twitter, and is no longer confined to password-protected dark corners of the online world.

Twitter in 2006, communication across the globe has become simpler as users can utilize messaging functions and video chat options to talk with anyone around the world, provided there is an internet connection. Although these social media and Internet technology outlets are great for communication and trade on a global scale, they also open up new ways for terrorists to recruit and private information to be released to anyone. Websites such as Amazon allow for the worldwide trade of goods, allowing individuals from across the globe to purchase products and send gifts to friends and family. Internet technology has also allowed for telecommuting where in virtual teams and cloud-based work systems can communicate and complete tasks (Li, 189). The popular video chatting application known as Skype has created opportunities for many to work from home or even interview others for jobs across the nation. The world is virtually shrunk with Internet technologies showing signs of replacing human travel as the need begins to disappear. Days where business owners cross the seas to meet for new opportunities have been reduced. The well-known terrorist group called ISIS uses social media and new Internet technologies to the group’s advantage to recruit followers from around the globe. National Security Council staffer Hillary Leverett reports that more than 90,000 pro-ISIS messages are posted on social media each day, creating an image of how valuable social media can be. An estimated