"One man's porn is another man's terrorist repellant."

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"One man's porn is another man's terrorist repellant."

wonderful piece cataloguing the trolling of ISIS/Taliban FB communities with hentai and Kama Sutra illustrations

How Anime Porn Became a Weapon for Rival Terror Groups on Facebook
These “cyberarmies” battling it out on Facebook are resorting to a bizarre weapon of choice to knock each other down.
thedailybeast.com
7:33 PM · Jan 5, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/terror-supporters-are-using-anime-porn-to-fight-virtual-battles-on-facebook

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https://archive.fo/2608r

The Facebook group “Soldiers of the Righteous Caliphate” was a bubbling cauldron of noxious extremist support drawn from rival groups including the Islamic State, and the Taliban. It was filled with beheading imagery, military exercises, hand-drawn faceless portraits of the late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and—somehow—plenty of anime porn.

With just over 24,000 members, the Facebook group represented a perfect case study in the malicious mix of extremist support on the platform, which continues to evade detection and gain traction. So why was it full of pornography?

There has been plenty of analysis about extremist groups and how their content evades detection, but not many reports have focused on the antics of people trying to fight these extremists online. Some of these vigilantes are lone actors, others are part of “cyberarmies” aligned with other extremist groups fighting rival terrorist supporters online.

The “Soldiers of the Righteous Caliphate” group was a microcosm of vigilante digital detractors at play. It was the digital equivalent of a wrestling cage match between cyberarmies of extremist group supporters targeting the Islamic State, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Taliban.

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