(Photo credit: @Newsweek/Twitter)ISIS is now setting its sights on two social media giants in a new propaganda video that has Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey’s photos covered in bullets.
The 25-minute video, titled “Flames of the Supporters,” was discovered by Vocativ and two experts who track ISIS activity online confirmed to CNN Money that the video was posted to multiple ISIS forms.
“To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook and to their crusader government,” text on the ISIS video reads. “You announce daily that you suspend many of our accounts, and to you we say: Is that all you can do? You are not in our league. If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete your sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true.”
The terror group says it is using hackers to fight back against the efforts from the two companies to shut down their activities on the social network. Earlier this month Twitter said it shut down 125,000 terrorist accounts.
In the video, ISIS says it has hacked more than 5,000 Twitter accounts and 10,000 Facebook accounts.
“Many of these accounts have been given to supporters and if Allah permits the rest of them will be distributed also,” the video says.
Facebook recently announced that it has set up the equivalent to a “counterterrorism squad,” with multiple offices worldwide that are staffed with people fluent in dozens of language. That allows them to closely monitor suspected terror-related activity and take it down.
“If we become aware of an account that is supporting terrorism, we’ll remove that account,” Monica Bickert, Facebook’s chief of global policy management, told Yahoo News in January.
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