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More than 150,000 videos have been deleted since June 2017 by YouTube - owned by internet giant Google (Photo: Michael McGimpsey)

Fighting the terrorist virus on the internet

The battlefield against 21st century terrorism is on the internet.

Daesh may have lost its territorial centre of gravity, Raqqa, but online it is still thriving. Clandestine and infectious, its propaganda spreads from platform to platform with a message of hate, a nihilist interpretation of Islam and detailed instructions on how to kill innocent citizens.

The most recent attacks in Europe and the US were 'inside jobs': the attackers never travelled to Syria or Iraq but had bee...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

More than 150,000 videos have been deleted since June 2017 by YouTube - owned by internet giant Google (Photo: Michael McGimpsey)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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