how we can DISRUPT the isis social media strategy

 

Patrick Nieto

patrickrnieto@gmail.com

github.com/patricknieto

(USING DATA SCIENCE!)

isis uses twitter more than any other social Platform.

INitiate revolutions

ISIS uses twitter to

SPREAD Messages of hate

recruit susceptible youth

project power across globe

70,000 accounts

200,000 tweets per day

On Twitter, ISIS is composed of over

with members sending over

twitter take downs

Current insuffienct and ineffective solutions include

hactivists take downs

government promoting isis failures

identify influencers to dismantle the network

My solution is to

(USING DATA SCIENCE!)

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

ISIS Tweets in 2016 (17,000 total tweets)

Raw data supplied by the Fifth Tribe Digital Media Agency

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

preprocessing

Through a combination of

retweet anaLysis

and

1556 unique ISIS tweeters

I identified that there were

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

categorize users by content

Next, I moved on to

document clustering

Using the NLP techniques like

Network Graph

and a visualization tool called a

categorize tweet content to aid in grouping users

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

document clustering

TF-IDF Vectorizer

Non-negative Matric Factorization

CATEGORIZe tweet content to aid in grouping users

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

document clustering

Breaking News

islamic state, breaking, Amaq agency

Iraqi, Fallujah, martyrdom

operation

Fanfare

 follow, alaikum, suspension

  khair, assalamu, jazakAllah, retweet

Participation

Syria, Assad, Aleppo,

Russian, rebels, ypg, saa

IDENTIFY THE SOCIAL INFLUENCERS

find > identify > categorize > analyze  

NETWORK GRAPH

Build relationships based off mentions

Gephi graphing tool

Participation

Breaking

News

Fanfare

Thank you!

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