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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Twitter Suspends Dozens of Pro-ISIS Accounts After Cantlie Video - NBC News.com

Twitter Suspends Dozens of Pro-ISIS Accounts After Cantlie Video

Dozens of pro-ISIS Twitter accounts appear to have been suspended in the social networking site's latest purge of online extremists. The crackdown follows the Sunni militant group's release of another video showing British hostage John Cantlie, although it was not clear if that prompted the cull. "It’s definitely been one of the heaviest weeks [for suspending pro-ISIS accounts] ever," Belgium-based historian and blogger Pieter Van Ostaeyen told NBC News. He said least 77 accounts he followed were suspended.

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