For individuals, social networking means sharing small moments and major events in life. For businesses, social media marketing can help build brands. For terrorist groups such as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, social networks increasingly are the tool of choice for delivering messages of hate and recruiting new members to their cause. ISIS has exploited Twitter to send out propaganda on a regular basis, according to a Brookings Institute report, and attempts to shut it down have been unsuccessful for the most part.
I find it interesting and troubling that the very agencies setup to protect America and American's all failed at detecting people who are not already terrorists. The two in California simple came to be here on a vetting process that obviously is flawed if nobody previously had committed violent acts. If fact if you never had any signs of communicating with a ISIS organization. What else can the vetting process discover? We could have many hundreds of Islamic loyalists in America communication freely on open networks of social sites and chat rooms and never worry about anyone discovering them. Its truly a daunting task and one that may prove impossible to proactively protect American's from this kind of terrorism. The truly effective way is to prevent them from entering the US and to attack at the very heart of the ISIS organization. We unfortunately have not done so effectively. I totally blame our President for not taking this threat seriously. Now our President has put American's at risks and we all need to report and monitor activity that may indeed be the only defense for this evil.
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Social Media’s Troubling Terrorist Infestation
Posted by: Peter Suciu December 4, 2015 07:00 AMFor individuals, social networking means sharing small moments and major events in life. For businesses, social media marketing can help build brands. For terrorist groups such as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, social networks increasingly are the tool of choice for delivering messages of hate and recruiting new members to their cause. ISIS has exploited Twitter to send out propaganda on a regular basis, according to a Brookings Institute report, and attempts to shut it down have been unsuccessful for the most part.