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Wed Feb 24, 2016, 03:32 PM Feb 2016

EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Threatens Mark Zuckerberg And Jack Dorsey

Source: Vocativ

The terror group vowed retaliation for efforts to suspend ISIS-affiliated social media accounts, Vocativ discovered

By Gilad Shiloach on Feb 24, 2016 at 8:55 AM

ISIS threatened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on Wednesday with promises that its hackers are fighting back against efforts to wipe social media platforms of accounts promoting terrorism, Vocativ discovered.

A 25-minute propaganda video showing pictures of Zuckerberg and Dorsey covered with bullet holes was uncovered by Vocativ deep web analysts on the social-media site Telegram, which ISIS frequents. The video is titled “Flames Of The Supporters,” and ends with a direct threat to the two CEOs.

“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,” text on the video clip reads. “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.”


A screenshot from the Islamic State's video, showing Dorsey and Zuckerberg.
Shiloach, Gilad


Twitter said earlier this month it suspended 125,000 accounts “for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.” Facebook has said that it works to ensure that terrorists don’t use the site, and that it removes content supporting terrorism.

Read more: http://www.vocativ.com/news/289402/isis-threatens-mark-zuckerberg-and-jack-dorsey/

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