Despite territorial losses, ISIS continues to exert influence globally through its advanced media tactics and online presence.
The Islamic State group has lost thousands of fighters to death or prison and suffered the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But the global reach of the group, also known as ISIS , is still vast, in part because of its sophisticated media output and the people around the world who consume it.When he drove into a crowd in New Orleans. Authorities say there was no evidence that the man, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had active connections to the terrorist group.
But the FBI said “he was 100 per cent inspired by ISIS”. The FBI said the man who killed 14 people when he drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was “100 per cent inspired by ISIS”.It is not yet clear which specific online content Jabbar may have seen or how else he may have been radicalised. Experts noted that the placement of the flag on the truck resembled one depicted by the Islamic State group in a media campaign urging followers to “run them over without mercy”. And, authorities said, he posted several videos to his Facebook account before his attack in which he pledged allegiance to Islamic State group. ‘Terror groups don’t have to make a ton of effort to radicalise people any more; the algorithm does it for them.’From online videos to social media platforms – and even a weekly Islamic State group newsletter – the group that wants to force all Muslims to adhere strictly to the faith’s earliest teachings has a very modern media strategy. “Terrorism is essentially communications,” said Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former United Nations diplomat who is senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, a think tank with offices in New York and Berlin. “It is not warfare because, obviously, ISIS cannot militarily defeat the West, right? They tried, and it didn’t exactly end well.” Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria in 201
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