Twitter

This resource is an informative, visual and descriptive infographic by Fifth Tribe focused in ISIS’s use of Twitter. The infographic and descriptions in the article were written following the Paris attacks in November 2015.

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This resource contains the description and data analysis from a research project conducted by Fifth Tribe into ISIS’s use of Twitter in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks.

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This 44 page resource is the comprehensive final report of the Umati Project that focused on monitoring hate speech online.

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This short 2013 article discusses the free speech vs terrorist propaganda debate in relation to Twitter and various terrorist organizations.

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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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This 2014 article is based on a study of terrorist groups’ use of web technologies in Sub Saharan Africa. The study investigated 245 terrorist groups operating across 45 countries in the Sub Saharan African region as determined by data held within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD).

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This 2011 article provides an insightful look into the presence of gangs on social media and social networking websites.

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This article is based on a research project conducted by the SecDev Group in collaboration with the U.S. National Institute for Justice (NIJ) in San Diego.

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This article is a seminal piece and a foundational resource in the field of social media analytics and open source intelligence by some of the field’s leading authors.

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This is a foundational report and a seminal work in the study of social media intelligence and open source research. The paper reviews 245 papers in a semi-systematic literature review of how information and insight can be drawn from open social media sources.

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