ISIS is facing massive attacks on its web forums, Twitter accounts and other social media outlets, purportedly from Anonymous, the loosely affiliated online activism group. Over the past few days, most of the prominent jihadi forums used by ISIS members and supporters, such as AlPlatformMedia.com, have been taken offline and since stayed that way. Anonymous members have been boasting about their digital campaign against terrorists, squarely focused on ISIS. Its unclear whether Anonymous is 100 percent responsible for the digital blackout—but for an organization like ISIS that relies so heavily on social media to spread its propaganda, it’s likely to be a critical blow. Anonymous claimed responsibility for targeting dozens of websites, forums and social media accounts used to broadcast ISIS propaganda and recruit new fighters.
I can never tell if I should be mad at Anonymous or not, they do things like this, and then they bring the Playstation Network down for months at a time. Not implying those two things are on equal ground of course.
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