Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey On Threats Made Against Him by ISIS

Mark Zuckerberg On Threats Made Against Him by ISIS

In a separate slide, they also claim to have hacked more than 10,000 Facebook accounts, 150 Facebook groups, and more than 5,000 Twitter accounts.
"Many of these accounts have been given to supporters and if Allah permits the rest of them will be distributed also," they add.
Two scholars who track ISIS activity online confirmed that the video CNNMoney watched was posted Tuesday morning to multiple ISIS forums, including some on the social media platform Telegram. Existence of the video was first reported by Vocativ and The Sun.
ISIS and related terrorist groups have targeted Dorsey at least twice in the past year. A group of self-identified ISIS supporters threatened the Twitter founder and CEO in March of 2015 for closing hundreds of their social media accounts.
In its threat, the group claimed that Dorsey and his company started a "war" against the Islamic State, and that the "necks" of Twitter employees have "become an official target to ISIS soldiers and supporters." 
Twitter seems to have only stepped up its efforts to wipe ISIS off its platform since then.
A few weeks ago, the company announced it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts for threatening or supporting terrorist acts over the past several months.
Twitter also said it has grown its team that looks into reports of terror activity on its network.
During his keynote at Mobile World Congress this week, Zuckerberg reiterated his stance and Facebook's policy on helping to fight terrorism online.
"We feel like we have a pretty big responsibility running this big networking community to help prevent terrorism and different kinds of attacks," he said on Monday. "We have very strong policies on this."
Zuckerberg said in a past town hall that anything that incites violence or terrorism, "we just take down immediately."
A Facebook spokeswoman did not immediately respond to request for comment on this week's threat.
A Twitter spokesman reiterated the company's policy and progress on suspending accounts that promote terrorism or any violent threat.

Mark Zuckerberg has opened up about the recent threats issued to him by ISIS supporters last week. In the 25-minute long video, ISIS threatened to take down Facebook and Twitter, as well as their CEOs. Spotted by the deep web analysts from Vocative, this video was seen as a response to the recent efforts made by the social media companies to curb the online activities of ISIS.

Talking to Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of German media giant Axel Springer, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, “I am very concerned but not because of the video. There have been worse threats.”

In the wide-ranging interview, he went to tell how he faced threats from an extremist in Pakistan. He tried to get the Facebook founder sentenced to death because the company didn’t want to take down a group in which people were encouraged to draw pictures of the Prophet Muhammad. For those who don’t know, this act is illegal in Pakistan.

“The Pakistani government asked us to remove the content world, what we did, of course,” Zuckerberg said. 

During his interview, Zuckerberg saw a common theme in both the threats and said that Facebook is here for giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

In recent times, the extremist forces have started using social media as their major tool to gain supporters and spread the propaganda. To counterattack their activities, social media websites are taking steps like banning Facebook groups and pages that spread hate speech. Earlier this month, Twitter alone suspended 125,000 accounts that were accused of being associated with ISIS.

“Our North Star is that we want to give the most voice possible to the most people,” Zuckerberg said in the interview. “We work closely with governments and local organizations to be certain we are applying [standards] appropriately for local conditions and to identify and remove hateful or threatening content.”

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source : fossbytes