
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/04/isis-social-media-methods
IS (previously known as ISIL or ISIS) has used social media to recruit foreigners from all corners of the globe—and it's working a hell of a lot better than you might think. IS supporters and fighters have used Facebook, Twitter, Ask.fm, Pinterest, YouTube, WordPress, Kik, WhatsApp, and Tumblr—almost any network available—to reach new audiences. In late 2014, there were a reported 2,700 Westerners fighting for IS and similar jihadist groups in the Middle East. As of early 2015, that number has swelled to 3,400. At least 180 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to join the group. In all, some 25,000 foreign fighters from more than 100 countries have joined jihadists groups including IS.
The group’s social media outreach is working so well that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement agencies last month that IS’s recruiting and radicalizing efforts are trending with young Americans. Their propaganda is spreading faster than any other terrorist group in history—and they have more than $2 billion to keep the wheels spinning on this Hollywood-styled studio of evil.
The group’s social media outreach is working so well that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement agencies last month that IS’s recruiting and radicalizing efforts are trending with young Americans. Their propaganda is spreading faster than any other terrorist group in history—and they have more than $2 billion to keep the wheels spinning on this Hollywood-styled studio of evil.

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