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Kaleev Leetaru. "The Problem With Using AI to Fight Terrorism on Social Media." Forbes, Vol.1, No.3, May,15 2018. Jason Burke. "How Changing Media is Changing Terrorism." The Guardian, February,25 2016. Clint Watts. "Is Big Tech Doing Enough." FPRI, Vol.3, No.5, January,17 2018.

These appear to be good sources, but three were required. See where there are content gaps in the WP article and pull something from each of your sources to help improve it. Draft is due by March 11. JAirhart 15:46, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Terror groups take to social media because it’s cheap, accesible, and facilitates quick to a lot of people. Social media allow them to engage with their networks. In the past it wasn’t so easy for these groups to engage with the people they wanted to whereas social media allows terrorists to release their messages right to their intened audience and interract with them in real time. “Spend some time follwing the account, and you realize that you’re dealing with a real human being with real ideas- albeit boastful, hypocritical, violent ideas” (Weimann,1). Al- Qaeda has been noted as being as being one of the terror groups that uses social media the most extensively. “While almost all terrorist groups have websites, al qaeda is the first to fully exploit the internet. This reflects al Qaeda’s unique characteristics.” (Jenkins,1) Despite the obvious risks it’s leaders communicate regulary with video and audio messages which are posted on the website and disseminated on the internet. ISIS uses social media to their advantage when releasing threatening videos of beheadings. ISIS uses this tactic to scare the normal people on social media. It lets us know this stuff is very real and no joke.