Daeshbook: Terrorist Social Networks ‘Impossible to Fend Off’
SputnikNews.com
05.05.2017
Europol and other law enforcement agencies are doing a good job of reacting to terrorist activity on the internet, but the nature of the resource means the bad guys will always be one step ahead, cyber terrorism expert Lars Hilse told Radio Sputnik.
On Thursday, the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol declared the opening of an investigation into Daesh efforts to set up its own social network.
“We are investigating the possibility that IS [Daesh] and other terror groups are setting up a social media platform. We are still working on identifying the full details of the account, including who has set it up and for what purpose,” Europol communications officer Jan Op Gen Oorth told AFP.
The announcement came after an operation last week by Interpol and officers across Europe and the US, who identified more than 2,000 items of terrorist propaganda posted online by Daesh and al-Qaeda affiliated media outlets. They referred the content to online service providers for removal, the agency stated.
Lars Hilse, digital strategy consultant and expert on cyber terrorism told Radio Sputnik that terrorist groups are using the internet for marketing purposes.
“As devious as this may sound in the context, it’s about relaying a message and the message can be done as corporations do, through the internet as well, so they resort to essentially doing the same things as the aforementioned corporations are doing. [That is,] spreading the message and attracting new people to their message.”
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