Social media

November 21, 2024 | Ari Ben Am |

How to Prevent Classified U.S. Intelligence from Ending up on Social Media

Once again, highly classified U.S. intelligence reports are circulating on social media. Last month, Telegram’s pro-Iran propaganda channel Middle East Spectator published two classified...

February 16, 2023 | Joe Truzman |

Social Media: An Important Tool Used By Palestinian Militant Groups

Between Gaza and the West Bank, there are approximately twenty active Palestinian militant organizations. Each group – to varying degrees – utilizes social media to spread its ideology, encourage attacks...

January 22, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘China’s Media Warfare seeks global totalitarian thought control’

India and other countries would do well to study how China employs Media Warfare to try to undermine Taiwan’s democratic institutions, fracture national unity, demoralize the public and military, and create social instability in pursuit of its goal of annexing this sovereign country.

March 26, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

October 27, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Radicalization: Social Media and the Rise of Terrorism

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May 7, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Jihad 2.0: Social Media in the Next Evolution of Terrorist Recruitment

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December 5, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Saudi Clerics Endorse Jihadists in Syria

A group of 72 preachers and religious scholars from Saudi Arabia published a petition yesterday endorsing the Islamic Front in Syria.  The Islam...

May 28, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Switzerland Bans Cleric for Anti-Semitic Rhetoric

The Swiss government extended its ban of the radical Saudi Islamist scholar Muhammad al-Arefe because of his anti-Semitic and misogynist ideologies. The website GulfNews.com report...

April 19, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Manhunt Continues in Boston, as Analysts Turn to Social Media for Clues

The manhunt for one of the two chief suspects in this week's Boston Marathon bombings has continued throughout the day. And as the younger of two brothers is pursued by authorities, analysts...

October 12, 2012 |

The Kingdom Boils

Nearly a month after a crude film caricature of the Prophet Muhammad made headlines, protests in response to it continue across the Muslim world. Yet in the ultraconservative Kingdom of Saudi Ara...

July 20, 2012 |

Oh, Brother

Why Egypt's new Islamist president is keeping the Saudis up at night.

June 11, 2012 | Steven Miller The Long War Journal

Study Shows Saudi Ambivalence on Radicalism

On May 27, an airstrike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northeastern Afghanistan killed Sakhr al Taifi, a Saudi citizen and al Qaeda's deputy commander for Afghanist...

May 18, 2012 |

Facebook Must Contend with Saudi Radicalism

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 this week. When he sat in his dorm room at Harvard eight years ago, cooking up what later became the world’s largest social network, Zuckerberg en...

May 9, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer

The 140-Character Fatwa

Despite assurances from the Saudi government that it is cracking down on religious radicalism, the kingdom's top clerics continue calling for attacks on Christians across the Arab world. And...

May 7, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Press

Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media

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May 4, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Press

Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media

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April 12, 2012 |

Saudi Women’s Spring

The rise of Islamist movements in the Arab Spring generally bodes poorly for women’s rights. But in Saudi Arabia, a country dominated by fundamentalist Islam, women are quietly driving a re...