June 11, 2015

Middle East Terror Group Has Its Own Social Network. Is That How They Recruit?




Khelafabook Isis supporters have set up their own social network, Khelafabook, though the site looked amateur and has broken since it was discovered. The site claimed to be set up to allow Isis and its supporters to communicate each other in the face of bans from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Twitter especially has become a battleground for propaganda — with the network acting to shut down many of the 90,000 accounts the group is thought to have set up, but not being able to stop the spread of Isis messages entirely. Khelafabook had the appearance of a normal social network, but had a photograph of the world with Isis logos posted over its countries as its background. It appeared to have been built on a platform called SocialKit, which anyone can download and use to make social networks of their own.

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