Thursday, November 23, 2017

For The First Time In Its History The Islamic State Online Propaganda Channels Went Silent For More Than 24 Hours

The Islamic State group usually posts more than a dozen messages a day on messenger application Telegram but its channels went mysteriously quiet between Wednesday and Thursday, in what analysts said was an "unprecedented" silence

AFP: In 'unprecedented' hiatus, IS media offline for a day

The Islamic State group's online propaganda channels went mysteriously quiet for more than a full day between Wednesday and Thursday, in what analysts said was an "unprecedented" silence.

IS, which uses messaging application Telegram to broadcast daily updates on military operations and claims of attacks, published nothing between 0900 GMT on Wednesday and 1001 GMT on Thursday.

Charlie Winter, senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, called the silence "unprecedented."

"The deceleration in the production of IS media has been particularly profound over the last couple of weeks," said Winter.

"But there were no 24-hour periods when it was completely silent," he told AFP.

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WNU Editor: I am sure that this did not help those who are pushing the Islamic State's message .... Hackers Put Porn In ISIS Propaganda (Newsweek). More here .... They Planted Porn in ISIS Propaganda, Just for Starters, Then Sowed Chaos and Confusion in the 'Caliphate' (Daily Beast).

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The jihadis downloaded the 'free' porn pretended to be outraged and then got back to business.

Anonymous said...

Exactly.
And Weinstein briefly signed up to ISIS just to be able to download the porn, Jack off and then threatened his computer to not talk about it :))