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Iraq crisis: Isis cracks a savvy social media advance
Telegraph ^ | 6-17-2014

Posted on 06/17/2014 10:55:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Isis has harnessed a range of social media tools to spread graphic pictures of slaughter and territorial gains, facing few if any curbs from the world’s biggest technological companies.

The terror group’s use of Twitter from an array of accounts has hit the headlines, but the group has also designed and put up for sale applications that allow it to post its propaganda direct to users. Studies show a huge response to the groups social media activity.

One product The Dawn of Glad Tidings, abbrieviated to Dawn, was sold through the Google Play store. Before being taken down it was been used to circulate more than 40,000 tweets in recent days as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham made lightning gains across a swathe of Iraq.

One of the most notorious messages sent through the app was a cartoon of fighters carried in a convoy of trucks past a sign reading "Baghdad" which was tagged: "#ISIS we are coming Baghdad".

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KEYWORDS: iraq; isis
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1 posted on 06/17/2014 10:55:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

ISIS Jihad TV Schedule:

8 AM Early Morning Prayers
10 AM Mid-Morning Prayers
12 Noon Beheadings at High Noon!
2 PM Mid-Afternoon Prayers
4 PM Rant by Chief Executioner Ali-Al-SwingBlade
5 PM Evening Prayers
6 PM Twilight Beheadings (Make-up Session)
9 PM Evening Prayer for Destruction of the Jooz
10 PM Sign Off


2 posted on 06/17/2014 11:19:47 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Citizen Zed
Youtube allows these animals to post some of the most vile gore porn ever. I could not believe my eyes and that stuff was usually restricted to gore sites.

Yet they have censored many conservative, anti-Obama, and anti-Islamic videos. All according to plan...

3 posted on 06/17/2014 11:34:04 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: Citizen Zed

#ThankYouAmericaForAllTheWeaponsWeCapturedButDeathToAmericaAnyway


4 posted on 06/17/2014 12:29:57 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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