Social Media and Terrorist Financing: Time for a Focused Response

A still image taken from a Daesh propaganda video showing militants firing a light machine gun during a firefight in Salaheddin province in Iraq, June 2016. Terrorist groups suchs as Daesh are highly skilled in using social media to promote their ideology

Social media has attracted scrutiny as a tool for promoting extremism. Its power to support terrorist financing requires equal attention.

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• Technology, Security and Intelligence
• Terrorist Financing

Research Groups

• Centre for Finance and Security

WRITTEN BY

Tom Keatinge

Director, CFS

Centre for Finance and Security

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