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How has the Islamic State’s messaging changed since its state has been destroyed? Adam Hoffman analyzes recent trends : https://dayan.org/content/physical-caliphate-ruins-propaganda-calling-jihadists-patience-and-steadfastness

Bloomberg explains that Big technology companies have added the digital signatures of 40,000 terrorist videos and images to a shared database as they seek to keep extremist content off their platforms : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/tech-companies-identify-remove-40-000-terrorist-videos-images

Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman, Head of Counterterrorism Policy, try to answer this Hard Question on Facebook Newsroom : https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/11/hard-questions-are-we-winning-the-war-on-terrorism-online/

The Chicago Project on Security and Threats, which analyzed some 1,400 videos released by IS between 2013 and 2016 made some interesting conclusions. Read them in this article publshed in The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/die-hard-for-jihadists-is-recruits-with-heroic-tales/

An interesting analysis of ISIS’s present strategy:

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/isil-2-0-a-terror-group-in-full-insurgency-mode-1.675881

ISIS’s famed propaganda machine will never be the same. In the inaugural issue of the  MDC’s (Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies) new weekly, “Jihadiscope,” Gilad Shiloach explains why.
http://dayan.org/content/isis’s-defeat-syria-and-iraq-also-end-isis’s-media-we-know-it

An accurate analysis of the subject by Dario Cristiani in the Terrorism Monitor (Volume 15 Issue 20), a Jamestown Foundation publication https://jamestown.org/program/long-will-italy-weather-europes-rising-terror-threat/

This paper (The Social Media Experience of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) offers a descriptive analysis of the propaganda activities of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Internet social media. It examines the group’s propaganda actions from its creation in 1998 until the end of 2015 and argues that the use of social media, Twitter in particular, has failed to offer any real remedy to its mediocre propaganda actions. During the period in which its Twitter profiles were active, the organisation continued to manifest the same problems, including a shortage of qualified human resources and poor internal coordination, which had prevented it from engaging in efficient propaganda activity previously. The study of the social media experience of the group offers further evidence of the vulnerabilities of this Maghrebi jihadist organisation.

Peter Neumann writes a relevant paper entitled “Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Lead to Terrorism: Ideas, Recommendations, and Good Practices from the OSCE Region.”  You can read it here http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Corr.1-Neumann-Report.pdf

Mady Crowell for the Atlantic publishes an interesting article about what Went Wrong With France’s Deradicalization Program https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/france-jihad-deradicalization-macron/540699/

The New Netwar: Countering Extremism Online

Policy Exchange’s new report provides a comprehensive analysis of the struggle against online jihadist extremism – what we call “the new Netwar”.

Have a good reading: https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-New-Netwar-2.pdf

ISIS’s Claims of Responsibility for Terrorist Attacks Carried Out Abroad

This study, performed by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center At the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, examines the forms of ISIS’s claims of responsibility for terrorist attacks it carried out abroad.

Discover it:  http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2017/08/HF_159_17.pdf