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| Twitter suspends Islamic State accounts |
| 2014-08-18 |
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Dozens of Twitter accounts linked to Islamic State (IS) jihadists have been closed down by the site's administrators in the last week after they were used to threaten the United States and post a string of grisly images. Members of the terror organization apparently attempted to reactivate the blocked accounts but Twitter's staff have repeatedly closed them down again. The accounts had been used to boast of victories in Iraq and Syria and threaten US forces. In one particularly graphic tweet, an Australian jihadi published a photograph of his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head. IS used other accounts to terrify Twitter users by tricking them into viewing images of corpses using innocuous hashtags such as #Hawaii. |
| Posted by:Fred |