Addressing ISIS Recruitment on Social Media

Abstract

As a recruitment tactic, ISIS uses several social media platforms to address minor or local grievances in order to gain a following and incite anger and violence and, ultimately, convince someone to commit domestic terrorism. Social media accounts are very hard for law enforcement to monitor, and even harder to determine, psychologically, who may be motivated by the pro-ISIS material. Law enforcement must understand the impact of ISIS social media recruiting if they want to counter violent extremism online.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 07, 2019
Accession Number
AD1177384

Entities

People

  • Amber J. Rucker Bradbury

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Science
  • Dark Web
  • Domestic Terrorism
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Internet
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • National Governments
  • Online Communications
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.