Research finds social media disruption impacting on Islamic State propaganda
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 09:02
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers from the VOX-Pol project at Dublin City University, together with colleagues from the University of Sussex, have found that the social media platform, Twitter is becoming less effective for the so-called 'Islamic State' (IS), due to the rapid take-down rate of pro-IS accounts from the site. It found that IS accounts faced "substantial and aggressive disruption".