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Seems kind of a wild leap to blame the rise of ISIS on Twitter. ISIS came from the events in Iraq and is an offshoot of "Al Qaeda in Iraq". It even stands for
by y-c-o-m-b 5y ago
Seems kind of a wild leap to blame the rise of ISIS on Twitter.
ISIS came from the events in Iraq and is an offshoot of "Al Qaeda in Iraq". It even stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant". They existed long before the Arab Spring.
The Arab Spring started in 2010 and ISIS didn't enter Syria (which I think is the connection you're making?) until well after that.
- 1cvmask 5y agoTwitter, and others, is a tool of the government, and national security state, and was weaponized multiple times to overthrow governments, institute color revolutions, allow terrorists to flourish etc... The Obama administration even bragged about it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/obama-iran-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/obama-iran-twi... https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media....
- helge9210 5y agoPSYOPs existed long before Twitter and others. Social networks and ML just made the tools more powerful and precise.