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| European Cyber Police Unit to Take on Islamic State Propaganda | |
| 2015-06-23 | |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. The unit, set to start operating from Europol's Hague-based headquarters next month, will comb tens of thousands of social media accounts connected with IS and report them to the companies behind the websites, Europol chief Rob Wainwright said. He declined to name Facebook and Twitter "for privacy reasons," but said: "These are the leading social media companies. There's only three or four, so that's who we are talking about." The team "will focus on publicly-available material and combine what we see on social media with more traditional intelligence sources," Wainwright told AFP in a telephone interview. Initially consisting of some 15 to 20 members, the cyber squad will focus on key figures who put out thousands of tweets and run accounts used to lure would-be jihadists to Iraq and Syria, as well as to recruit jihadists' brides. A recent U.S. study identified at least 46,000 Twitter accounts linked to supporters of the IS group, three-quarters of them tweeting in Arabic. Since the IS group called on Moslems to come to the caliphate it declared a year ago, foreign fighter numbers have jumped, with the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... reporting a 71 percent spike in the nine months to April. The International Center for the Study of Radicalization in London said the number of foreigners fighting in Syria and Iraq topped 20,000 by January -- with nearly a fifth of them from western Europe. "The IS is the most well-connected terrorist organization that we've seen online," Wainwright pointed out. "They are manipulating the Internet and social media, which has become a cornerstone in the lives of many young people," he said. Europol will draw on a decade of experience in monitoring turban websites and well as "deep knowledge of turban content and good linguistic capabilities including our knowledge of Arabic," to combat the problem. Wainwright said once an turban account had been detected, the companies would be informed and it would be taken down in "a matter of a few hours." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Data mining social media? I thought every graduate student was already doing that? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-06-23 11:15 |