Despite improvements to algorithmic filtering, Facebook and Google+ still host scores of ISIS and related content and accounts that sometimes stay up for months. https://media.wired.com/photos/5afcd0cbcc8dc93d6a8e7637/master/pass/jihad_fb_google.jpg
Tag: Jihadi
The Syrian Filmmaker Documenting Jihadi Family Values
“I learned to speak directly to the eyes,” says Talal Derki. He’s sitting on a couch in a rented condo in Park City, Utah, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. With tattooed arms, a well-trimmed goatee and penetrating green eyes, the 40-year-old Syrian filmmaker projects an intensity and sincerity that must’ve helped convince a jihadi […]
French jihadi wives captured by Kurds want to face trial in 'real country'
Lawyers representing a group of French jihadi wives being held captive by Kurdish fighters in Syria have filed a complaint for not letting the women face trial at home, on the grounds that Syrian Kurdistan is not a “real country.” A group of around 40 radicalized French women, along with their children and several men, […]
Jihadi kickboxer who ‘considered’ attack on Vatican jailed for 6 years in Italy
A Moroccan kickboxer, his wife, and two other Moroccans have been jailed in Italy over links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The jihadi sportsman allegedly “considered” staging an attack on Vatican. Competitive kickboxing champion Abderrahim Moutaharrik was handed a six-year jail term while his wife Salma Bencharki was sentenced to five years in prison, […]
