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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ISIS tweets
By Patrick Nieto
ISIS tweets
How ISIS Uses Twitter
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