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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-017-0114-0 : YouTube has over 1 billion users each month. This means that many people will likely have a chance to see videos posted by others. With this being such a huge place for propaganda to thrive, terrorist groups like ISIS will try and get their videos on YouTube for millions to see. Terrorist’s use of social media and the Internet to share their ideals and goals is well known and documented. Groups like Isis use the Internet and social media sites as a tool for propaganda, sharing information, data mining, fundraising, communication, and recruitment.

The Isis social media nerve center is its Al Hayat Media Centre which is sending many of these messages which reveal the propaganda tools it is using. They often post videos of them helping out civilians or kids. They try and manipulate their videos to show them being "nice" to try and change people's opinion about them. However, they also post videos to strike fear into others and to persuade them to join their cause. This form of cyber-terrorism is a very big deal to governments around the world. Fearing their own people will be swayed to join groups like ISIS. ISIS post videos to appeal to extremists, "they make these videos in a way to entice people who are vulnerable to extremist ways."