A Snapshot of the Syrian Jihadi Online Ecology: Differential Disruption, Community Strength, and Preferred Other Platforms

Abstract This article contributes to the growing literature on extremist and terrorist online ecologies approaches snapshotting these. It opens by measuring Twitter’s differential disruption of so-called “Islamic State” versus other jihadi parties Syria conflict, showing that while Twitter became increasingly inhospitable IS in 2017 2018, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Ahrar retained strong communities platform during same period. An analysis groups’ out-linking activity has twofold purpose determining reach content quantifying number platforms it was available analyzing nature functionalities spaces out-linked to.