Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Britain has large audience for online jihadist propaganda, report says
Isis extremist content attracts more clicks in Britain than in any other European country, thinktank says, and internet firms are failing to curb it
Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
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By Alan Travis | September 18, 2017
Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in Britain than in any other European country and the main internet companies are failing to curb it, a centre-right thinktank has said.
Policy Exchange analysts have said that Islamic State is still producing, at a conservative estimate, about 100 items of new content each week, including execution videos and bomb-making instructions, despite big military defeats in Iraq and Syria.
The report, the NewNetwar, says the jihadist online “ecosystem”, the core of which is rooted in the Telegram app, has tentacles across hundreds of different domains. It is resilient and reaches an audience of, at minimum, tens of thousands, including large numbers of users in the UK.
The report is published ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to discuss possible new measures to tackle online extremism, including fines for web companies that fail to take down extremist content.
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