social media diplomacy

NTC Fighters Claim Bani Walid

Can Twitter be a game changer for rebel groups?

To fight terrorist propaganda on the Internet, social media companies, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have all instituted take down policies and teamed up with Microsoft to create a database of unique ‘fingerprints’ to automatically detect terrorist propaganda in the form of images and videos. [...] Despite these efforts, however, ISIS still continues to successfully disseminate its propaganda on the internet.

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Digital diplomacy involves more than simply social media, argues Shaun Riordan.

March 17, 2017

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