Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem

In this article, we use network science to explore the topology of the Islamic State’s “terrorist bot” network on the online social media platform Telegram, empirically identifying its connections to the Islamic State supporter-run groups and channels that operate across the platform, with which the...

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Authors: Alrhmoun, Abdullah (Author) ; Winter, Charlie (Author) ; Kertész, János (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2024, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 409–424
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
bot communities
online extremism
Terrorist bots