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Al Qaeda Recruits Terrorists on Facebook

December 2010

This very short 2010 article presents an early example of extremist and terrorist organizations using social media for recruitment, in this case, Al Qaeda using Facebook.

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New Terrorism and New Media

2014

This short 2014 article discusses the turn to social media by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and particularly their presence on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites.

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How Jihadist Networks Maintain a Persistent Online ...

2015

The article examines the activity of the ‘media mujahedeen’ – the supporters of jihadist groups who disseminate propaganda content online.

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Al-Nusra Front: Breaking al-Qaeda’s Forum Monopo ...

April 2014

This article describes the methods through which the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria, has come into conflict with pro-Islamic State accounts and users on online platforms.

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Cooperative Game Theoretic Centrality Analysis of ...

2013

This 2013 paper introduces a methodology that incorporates information available on terrorist networks, into the analysis of social networks underlying terrorist groups.

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Reshaping Terrorist Networks

August 2014

This article examines the use of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for predicting key nodes for targeting within terrorist organizational structures.

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