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

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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:41 authored by Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj LakhaniSuraj Lakhani, Jeremy ReffinJeremy Reffin, Andrew RobertsonAndrew Robertson, David WeirDavid Weir
This article contributes to public and policy debates on the value of social media disruption activity with respect to terrorist material. In particular, it explores aggressive account and content takedown, with the aim of accurately measuring this activity and its impacts. The major emphasis of the analysis is the so-called Islamic State (IS) and disruption of their online activity, but a catchall “Other Jihadi” category is also utilized for comparison purposes. Our findings challenge the notion that Twitter remains a conducive space for pro-IS accounts and communities to flourish. 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; it is just one node in a wider jihadist social media ecology. This is described and some preliminary analysis of disruption trends in this area supplied too.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

ISSN

1057-610X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1-2

Volume

42

Page range

141-160

Department affiliated with

  • Informatics Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Crime Research Centre Publications
  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-11-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-10-31

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