Recently Uploaded Six-Year-Old ISIS Propaganda Video Found Among Numerous
Pro-ISIS Facebook Posts





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Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

Recently Uploaded Six-Year-Old ISIS Propaganda Video Found Among Numerous
Pro-ISIS Facebook Posts



(New York, N.Y.) — The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the
methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda,
recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social
media platform accountable for its failure to prevent the dissemination of
extremist and terrorist content.



On the nine accounts and one page that CEP located on Facebook within the past
week that posted pro-ISIS content, researchers found full-length ISIS videos
among various other pieces of propaganda, including a video originally released
in 2016 but uploaded to the social media site recently, that had several
hundred views. Two of the accounts also featured a prominent ISIS executioner
as their profile photos.



The extremist and terrorist content found by CEP researchers on Facebook are
clear violations of the platform’s terms of service, yet it often fails to be
removed. CEP encourages Facebook to takeconcrete action
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regarding the misuse of its site, including by providing Meta’s Oversight
Board with access to any and all information related to its inquiry; bringing
on external experts with core computer science skills, such as U.C. Berkeley
professor and CEP Senior AdvisorDr. Hany Farid
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and integrating Oversight Board members onto its corporate board. Meta is
responsible for the extremist content on its platforms, and it must begin to
act as such.



Pro-ISIS Content Located on Facebook



In a sample of pro-ISIS content found on August 17, CEP researchers located
nine accounts and one page that posted multiple pieces of the group’s
propaganda. Content published by the accounts included a full-length ISIS video
originally released in 2016, as well as clips from other previously released
ISIS videos, Amaq propaganda videos, Amaq photos and news statements, pages
from the al-Naba newsletter, and promotion of the pro-ISIS-K magazine “Voice of
Khurasan” and links to ISIS propaganda on other websites.



One of the accounts posted an approximately 17-minute-long ISIS propaganda
video titled “They Bewitched The Eyes of the People and Struck Terror into
Them,” originally released in January 2016. The uploader covered ISIS logos on
the top right of the screen with an emoji to prevent it from being detected and
removed. The video was uploaded to Facebook four days before CEP located it and
had 226 views and 22 reactions.



The ISIS video “They Bewitched The Eyes of the People and Struck Terror into
Them,” originally released in January 2016. ISIS logos on the top right of the
screen were covered with an emoji in order to evade removal.



Two Facebook accounts used images of the notorious ISIS executioner Mohammed
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photos. One of the Facebook accounts, which posted multiple pieces of pro-ISIS
content, also posted a video of previously released surveillance footage that
showed a Jewish man being stabbed by a colleague inMontreal
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. The Facebook page for the ISIS al-Naba newsletter had 11 followers and posted
photos, text from al-Naba, and other pro-ISIS content. Three of the nine
accounts did not have the number of friends or followers listed. The remaining
six accounts had between 120 and 1,300 friends or followers, with an average of
529.



CEP reported the nine accounts and one page to Facebook on August 17.
Approximately 48 hours later, only two accounts had been removed. The video
from 2016 was still on Facebook two days later and had received an additional
50 views.



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