The cyber caliphate: how the war against Isis went digital – Tech Weekly podcast

While Isis may be promoting a medieval ideology of beheadings, rape and enslavement, their use of technology is anything but backward

Extremist groups have long used the internet to recruit new members and citizens have long left home to fight in foreign countries. But Islamic State stands apart in the way it has mastered online propaganda and recruitment.

In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris we look at the process of online radicalisation: how it's evolving, what it means and what is being done to intervene. And as hacktivist communities declare cyberwar on Isis we discuss the battle for hearts and minds online and whether these kinds of attacks can really do anything to dent their digital juggernaut.

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