ISIS cleverly using internet to trap jihadis for recruitment

ISIS should be kicked off the open web, according to Google’s head of ideas.The group are always going to be able to us some form of the internet, such as anonymised browsing through Tor and the uncatalogued dark web.

But they should be hounded off the open web, a senior Google employee has said.

ISIS’s clever use of the internet has enabled it to pick up recruits by spreading information like videos and having conversations on Twitter and other social networks.

That reach has allowed it to pick out vulnerable people across the world and extend its reach far beyond its base in the Middle East.

“What is new is that they’re operating without being pushed back in the same internet we all enjoy,” said Jared Cohen, who is a director at Google Ideas and an advisor to the heads of parent company Alphabet.

The group has been able to use the internet to exaggerate their size.