ISIS Twitter network is decimated, but other extremists still not reined in

The pro-IS social media community has migrated from Twitter to the messaging service Telegram

Alongside the fierce battles that have been raging of late in key strongholds of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, intense battles against Islamist extremism have also been taking place online, particularly on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

In our recent research we looked more closely at the fight against IS on Twitter. While we found the majority of IS accounts were being quickly suspended, accounts linked to other extremist groups were not.

The use of social media by a diversity of violent extremists and terrorists and their