Inside Europol's Online War Against ISIS

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Inside Europol's Online War Against ISIS

In January I travelled to Europol's heavily fortified HQ in The Hague to interview members of the EU's Internet Referral Unit (IRU), an innocuous-sounding name for a group that spends most of its time trawling the internet for beheadings, bomb-making manuals, hysterical incitements and all the rest of it.

Despite the recent collapse of ISIS's "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq, the IRU is still busy. And, in any case, ISIS has far from gone away. Just a few months ago its Sinai faction released a new 23-minute video, and around the same time ISIS's media centre al-Hayat – famed for its "slick" English-language videos – released a clip showing what appeared to be a woman fighting in frontline combat.

Read more at: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/59jw8z/inside-europols-online-war-against-isis