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Disrupting Daesh: measuring takedown of online terrorist material and it's impacts

Conway, Maura ORCID: 0000-0003-4216-8592, Khawaja, Moign, Lakhani, Suraj, Reffin, Jeremy, Robertson, Andrew and Weir, David (2017) Disrupting Daesh: measuring takedown of online terrorist material and it's impacts. Policy Report. VOX-Pol. ISBN 978-1-873769-70-6

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Abstract

This report seeks to contribute to public and policy debates on the value of social media disruption activity with respect to terrorist material. We look in particular at aggressive account and content takedown, with the aim of accurately measuring this activity and its impacts. Our findings challenge the notion that Twitter remains a conducive space for Islamic State (IS) accounts and communities to flourish, although IS continues to distribute propaganda through this channel. However, not all jihadists on Twitter are subject to the same high levels of disruption as IS, and we show that there is differential disruption taking place. IS’s and other jihadists’ online activity was never solely restricted to Twitter. Twitter is just one node in a wider jihadist social media ecology. We describe and discuss this, and supply some preliminary analysis of disruption trends in this area.

Item Type:Monograph (Policy Report)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:ISIS; Islamic State; Twitter; YouTube
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine learning
Social Sciences > International relations
Social Sciences > Terrorism
Social Sciences > Communication
Computer Science > World Wide Web
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Research Initiatives and Centres > Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction
Publisher:VOX-Pol
Official URL:http://www.voxpol.eu/download/vox-pol_publication/DCUJ5528-Disrupting-DAESH-1706-WEB-v2.pdf
Copyright Information:© 2017 VOX-Pol Network of Excellence
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:European Union Framework Programme 7 grantt no. 312827, UK Home Office.
ID Code:21961
Deposited On:05 Sep 2017 08:16 by Maura Conway . Last Modified 14 Sep 2020 13:19

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