New blitz on Facebook jihadis as officials set to work with top tech bosses
OFFICIALS are set to work with top tech bosses to stop jihadis being recruited online.
Government and tech bosses will collaborate to stop jihadis
US security chiefs will meet today with the heads of internet and technology companies in San Jose, California.
The Pentagon is concerned how Islamic State is using social media and technology like encryption to drum up support for their evil cause.
The terror group also produces high-quality videos and slick online magazines as propaganda that they hope will lure in young people.
Silicon Valley is home to tech and internet companies
President Obama recently condemned ISIS as a “bunch of killers with good social media”.
There is worry over the role of social media in radicalising San Bernadino shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik.
14 were killed in the San Bernadino shooting
Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters
Malik reportedly made a pledge on Facebook to the Islamic State’s leader before carrying out the horrific shooting, which left 14 dead.
IS recently murdered a young journalist and then hacked into her Facebook to hunt down her friends.
Ruqia Hassan reported on IS atrocities from Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Islamic caliphate.
But on New Year's Day the terror group slaughtered her and told her devastated family she had been killed as punishment for "espionage".