The
dreaded Islamic
State militants'
group has made death threats to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a new video which shows their photos
riddled with digitally added bullet holes, mocking the social media
websites’ attempts to block terrorists' contents from their
platforms.
In
the 25-minute video, ISIS claims they are fighting back against
efforts by the social media giants to wipe their platforms of
accounts promoting terrorism.
The
video includes a direct threat to the tech entrepreneurs, branding
them allies of the American “Crusader government”.
Pictures
of Zuckerberg and Dorsey can be seen being blasted with a hail of
bullets in the amateur footage which emerged.
The
video, titled “Flames of the Supporters” and released by a group
calling themselves “the sons of the Caliphate army”, ends with a
direct threat to the two men, The Sun reported. A slide toward the
end of the video reads, in English: “To Mark and Jack, founders of
Twitter and Facebook and to their Crusader government. You announce
daily that you suspended many of our accounts and to you we say: is
that all you can do? you are not in our league. If you close one
account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased
after we delete you (sic) sites, #Sons_Caliphate_Army”.
In a
separate slide, they also claim to have hacked more than 10,000
Facebook accounts, 150 Facebook groups, and more than 5,000 Twitter
accounts. Two scholars who track ISIS activity online confirmed that
the video was posted to multiple ISIS forums, including some of the
social media platforms.
ISIS
and related terrorist groups have targeted Dorsey at least twice in
the past year. A group of self-identified ISIS supporters threatened
the Twitter founder and CEO in March of 2015 for closing hundreds of
their social media accounts. In its threat, the group claimed that
Dorsey and his company started a “war” against the Islamic State,
and that the “necks” of Twitter employees have “become an
official target to ISIS soldiers and supporters.” Twitter seems to
have only stepped up its efforts to wipe ISIS off its platform since
then.
A few weeks ago, the company announced it had suspended more
than 125,000 accounts for threatening or supporting terrorist acts
over the past several months. Twitter also said it has grown its team
that looks into reports of terror activity on its network. Zuckerberg
reiterated his stance and Facebook’s policy on helping to fight
terrorism online.
A
Facebook spokeswoman did not immediately respond to request for
comment on this week’s threat. A Twitter spokesman reiterated the
company’s policy and progress on suspending accounts that promote
terrorism or any violent threat.
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