ISIS supporters on Sunday called on jihadists
around the world to kill Twitter employees because of the company’s
frequent blocking of their social media accounts.
“Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you,” reads an online post addressed to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and shared by ISIS supporters.
The post, whose authorship is unclear, was accompanied by a digitally altered image of Dorsey in the cross sights of a gun.
Twitter, as well as YouTube, often move quickly to delete posts and
suspend accounts that disseminate ISIS videos showing the gruesome
executions of hostages.
Twitter’s terms of service
bar users from posting or publishing “direct, specific threats of
violence against others.” Users are also banned from using the service
“for any unlawful purposes or in furtherance of illegal activities.” Continue for the translation of the post.
“You started this failed war,” the ISIS post reads. “We told you from the beginning it’s not your war, but you didn’t get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back.”
“But when our lions [brave men] come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.”
ISIS supporters who have been barred from traveling to Syria or Iraq
to join the insurgent group have been previously encouraged to instead
launch lone-wolf attacks in their Western home countries. Just last
month, ISIS used Twitter
to post a video suggesting followers launch attacks on police or
military officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
Sunday’s online message (which was also shared on Twitter) called on
ISIS sympathizers to attack the social media company and its
“interests.”
“For the ‘individual jihadi’ all over the world, target the Twitter
company and its interests in any place, people, and buildings, and don’t
allow any one of the atheists to survive.”
A spokesman for Twitter, Jim Prosser, told BuzzFeed News: “Our
security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with
relevant law enforcement officials.”
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