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Aug 2024
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How ISIS Got Big on TikTok

JAKE HANRAHAN
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Today we're speaking journalist Haroun Esmail about his investigations into ISIS on TikTok. The jihadist militant group's music and propaganda is all over the app. You won't believe how it spread so fast.

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