Posted on 05/13/2009 2:37:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Militants and hate groups increasingly use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube as propaganda tools to recruit new members, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The report released on Wednesday noted a 25 percent rise in the past year in the number of "problematic" social networking groups on the Internet.
The report was based on "over 10,000 problematic Web sites, social networking groups, portals, blogs, chat rooms, videos and hate games on the Internet which promote racial violence, anti-semitism, homophobia, hate music and terrorism."
"Every aspect of the Internet is being used by extremists of every ilk to repackage old hatred, demean the 'Enemy,' to raise funds and since 9/11, recruit and train Jihadist terrorists," the Center said in a statement.
Examples of what the report calls "digital terrorism and hate" range from a Facebook group named "Death to gays" in Croatian to a YouTube video of a Koran being burned and various Web sites promoting militant groups such as Hezbollah, the Taliban, al Qaeda and Colombia's FARC.
The Jewish human rights group named for the renowned Nazi hunter has been monitoring use of the Internet by extremists for over a decade. It said the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook had accelerated the spread of racist and bigoted views in recent years.
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Read Richard Hunter’s book World Without Secrets. His theories on Network Armies is relevant.
Daily Kos isn’t a hate site?
So team 0bama is on Facebook now?
Sounds like another government hate group to me! Maybe one of those awful anti-tax anti-spend groups I keep hearing about...
Ironically, death to gays is exactly what the Koran teaches....
I don’t use any of them.
You use F.R. and many left wing idiots classify that as a “hate group”.
Yet not a word about the world-wide muslim terrorist networks...
Consider the source.
OPINION:
Amazingly, 10,000 might be a low number.
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