Report Reveals How Boko Haram, ISWAP Use Social Media to Recruit and Spread Propaganda

The institute in its report revealed that members of one of the most dreaded terrorist groups, the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), are skillfully exploiting WhatsApp and Telegram to organize and carry out their criminal activities across the West African region. Institute for Security Studies has called on governments across the African continent to mount pressure on tech companies to deal with terrorism on the internet, especially on social media platforms. According to the report, many groups, especially Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, are embedding the internet deeper into their operations in the West African region, and they…