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"They might have guns, but we have flowers." 

ISIS has become the deadliest killing machine across the globe today - this  ever-expanding terrorist “state” is killing faster than with what the statistics can keep up. Evident by the terrorist attacks carried out internationally, ISIS is no longer a Middle Eastern problem. It is a global issue that is targeting ordinary citizens, people just like you and me. ISIS’s growth strategy is a two-pronged one - not only does the organization target ordinary civilians through their indiscriminate terrorist attacks, it also targets lonely, vision-less individuals around the world and eventually lure them into recruitment. Through this blog, we want to emphasize that ISIS isn’t JUST a killing machine - it is a strategic and sophisticated social media powerhouse that exploits its social media skills- especially on Twitter- to seduce ordinary citizens of both sexes to join ISIS. The current media tends to focus on the military aspect of ISIS; Therefore, this blog aims to raise awareness about the sheer danger of ISIS recruitment, often veiled by the bloody, sensationalist nature of ISIS activity.

In this blog, we first provide background information on ISIS as an organization and the organization’s scope and influence on Social Media. This blog contains a sundry of relevant and up-to-date news regarding ISIS recruitment, ISIS’s social media activity, and the recent counterattack strategy by a hackers group called Anonymous. We also provide an in-depth summary of case studies dealing with different individuals from the US, the UK, and South Korea who were all subjected to the enticement of ISIS recruitment. We will be updating the blog periodically in order to provide the most informed and comprehensive analysis of this issue.

The contents of this blog is categorized into:

❀Background: provides basic information on ISIS as an organization in order to better understand its weaponization of social media and public platforms.

❀ISIS & Social Media: describes how ISIS weaponizes social media to recruit, organize and spread their ideologies.

❀Case Studies: will look into specific cases where individuals were subjected to the enticement of ISIS recruitment through various social media platforms.

❀News & Media: provides most informed and up-to-date issues regarding ISIS presence on social media and its impact. 

❀Fighting Back: serves the very purpose of our blog. As an important part of enhancing awareness, we would like to interact and communicate with readers of our blog so that they can be informed, understand the threats that ISIS poses and in the end spread the thoughts as we do.