ISIS threatened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on Wednesday with promises that its hackers are fighting back against efforts to wipe social media platforms of accounts promoting terrorism, Vocativ discovered.
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For Facebook and Twitter CEO’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, death threats from one of the world’s deadliest terrorist organizations are just part of the job.
“You announce daily that you suspend many of our accounts, and to you we say: Is that all you can do?” the text reads.
Both business leaders have been trying to clear Twitter and Facebook of accounts related to Daesh, as well as posts calling for the committing of terrorist acts.
The Islamist terrorist group made a 25-minute propaganda video entitled, “Flames of The Supporters”, in which they said they will retaliate if they are forced off the social network sites.
IS also mocked Twitter and Facebook in its attempts to block accounts they used, adding that they would make 10 new accounts for each one blocked.
“Many of these accounts have been given to supporters and if Allah permits the rest of them will be distributed also”, they add.
Internet companies are under growing pressure to more effectively police the presence of the extremist group in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino County. A February report by George Washington University Program on Extremism said the amount of pro-ISIS content available on Twitter has been limited by account suspensions since last summer. Facebook has not responded to the latest video, and for both social media giants, the latest round of threats appears to be business as usual.
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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”.
