Media Influence On Terrorism

Terrorists gets the attention of the media, whether it’s in a positive or negative manner. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the United States, the Middle East or Europe, terrorism continues to be a means of exploitation by the media. Although terrorist interests may lie primarily with the audience, the audience reactions and responses are just as important and significant as the act itself. I’m not saying the media is the reason that terrorists are able to get their information across the globe, however, the media plays a vital role with terrorism because it gets information to other groups indirectly by doing what they were hired to do, and that is to bring news to the people. So whether we like it or not, the media (because the media deals with
Initially, when social media first came into play, it was for individuals to be able to communicate, create videos, and post pictures, in a positive way. It has become evident that a negative cloud has come over social media. Terrorists has been able to recruit, they can vocalize their frustrations (whether there is a legitimate cause or not), the purpose of their propaganda, and they are also able to fundraise and train. Now people are able to build bombs by watching videos using social
Tweets are censored in certain countries, so there won’t risks taken by breaking local laws of that country. The demand for specific videos from YouTube has grown since 2010. YouTube has pulled terrorist group content from its server. However, they added an option under their “violent and repulsive content” titled “promote terrorism”. Although terrorist groups can still post, anyone viewing the video can have it ‘flagged’ as offensive content. It seems that some social media networks are responding to concerns regarding the negative impact that it brings, but, what is implemented is not enough. I think there should be a more direct approach. Although it may be tedious, I believe that something should be in place before videos can even be seen by even one