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Apr 2016
52m 24s

ISIS Recruitment Tactics

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The advent of social media technology has made global communication easier than ever before - yet this innovation creates opportunities for evil as well as good. Learn how ISIS is using social media to manipulate, groom and ultimately recruit people acros 
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