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Disrupting Daesh: measuring takedown of online terrorist material and its impacts

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:43 authored by Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj LakhaniSuraj Lakhani, Jeremy ReffinJeremy Reffin, Andrew RobertsonAndrew Robertson, David WeirDavid Weir
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.

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Measuring the Impact of Disrupting Online Terrorist Material; G2066; Home Office

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  • Published

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  • Published version

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The Vox-Pol Network of Excellence

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47.0

Department affiliated with

  • Informatics Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Crime Research Centre Publications
  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

Notes

ISBN 9781873769706

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The Vox-Pol Network of Excellence

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Legacy Posted Date

2018-11-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-03-19

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