New study analyzes tweets to reveal how ISIS still inspires low-level attacks

By analyzing 26.2 million Twitter comments in the Arabic language, researchers found that despite losing territory, ISIS remains successful at inspiring low-level attacks because of its messaging for a ‘call for lone jihad.’ The study, ‘ISIS at its apogee: The Arabic discourse about support for ISIS on Twitter and what we can learn from that,’ was recently published in SAGE Open.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org