ISIS Militants Use 'Jihadi Cool' to Recruit Globally

Along with its fast moving and brutal militant conquest of land in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq, the Islamic State extremist group has a phenomenal virtual capacity through social media. According to Staffan Truve, an analyst with Recorded Future, a group that monitors Twitter and other social media, this summer there were more than 60,000 accounts talking about the Islamic State extremists in a positive way. Multiply that by an average account’s retweets, and the group’s use of...

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