Despite Ban, YouTube Is Still a Hotbed of Terrorist Group Video Propaganda

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Thomas Hegghammer, senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and editor of the popular Jihadica blog, notes that “YouTube is extremely important for the dissemination of propaganda videos. I think YouTube is much more influential than bulletin boards because it reaches a much wider audience. Websites that specialise in jihadi propaganda are self-selecting in the sense that the people who access them are interested in jihadi propaganda to begin with. On YouTube, on the other hand, you can come across jihadi videos by accident, for example while searching for more moderate sermons. Basically, having jihadi propaganda on YouTube dramatically lowers the barrier of access.”

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https://www.fastcompany.com/1701383/despite-ban-youtube-still-hotbed-terrorist-group-video-propaganda

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05/07/2018, 12:21

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05/07/2018, 08:21