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Online Propaganda Builds Islamic State Brand in the Face of Military Losses
Extremist group uses claims of attacks to maintain relevance as it faces pressure in Syria and Iraq
Fighters from Syrian Democratic Forces last October in Raqqa, the Syrian city that was Islamic State’s de facto capital. Photo: YOUSSEF RABIH YOUSSEF/EPA/Shutterstock
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By Sune Engel Rasmussen
Updated Aug. 26, 2018 3:45 p.m. ET
Islamic State has lost most of the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq. It is vying for survival with other, sometimes stronger, extremist groups. But one sphere where Islamic State still reigns supreme among terrorists is in cyberspace.
The group’s vast online presence is a critical recruitment and marketing tool that has helped it build a brutish brand using propaganda and sometimes false claims. Maintaining the perception that Islamic State can shape the actions of loyalists has become all the more important as its territorial control, or self-declared caliphate, has almost completely collapsed.
The latest example of the role of such online propaganda came on Thursday, when Islamic State’s official news outlet claimed that a man who stabbed his mother and sister to death in France had responded to its calls to attack citizens of countries that are part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group. French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb disputed the statement, saying the perpetrator was mentally unstable.
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