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The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)

The precarious and complex situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is optimal for jihadist organizations to exploit for propaganda and to recruit disillusioned Rohingya, as well as to incite Muslims to fight in Myanmar and open a new jihadist front (Terrorism Monitor, November 10, 2017; EER, May 28). Before and after the emergence of a new pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadist …

Facebook's outage last week posed significant challenges for marketers who rely on the channel. Here are some takeaways and lessons learned.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the Kerala Islamic State (IS) module case, has found that the terror groups operatives in India were using much more secure messaging applications like Hoop and Rocket Chat for ...

Open source comms platform Rocket.Chat upgrades partner program Named Catalyst, the program claims to have a “scalable” onboarding process. Credit: Dreamstime Open source communication platform Rocket.Chat has unveiled a refreshed partner program that aims to ramp up training and enablement.  The new program, named Catalyst, claims to boast a “scalable” onboarding process that enables all key roles within a partner organisation to sell and deliver projects through the Roc...

This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and useful services without requiring the scale or the business practices of the tech giants. Read our earlier installments. How many messaging services do you use? Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, Signal, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Instagram, TikTok, Google Hangouts, Twitter Direct M...

A student from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, has been nominated by Google to participate in its highly coveted Google Summer

May 21, 2021 On May 7, 2021, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet published a poster on the ISIS-run Rocket.Chat server, urging supporters to use VPN and TOR to protect their anonymity. Latest Posts

May 19, 2021 On May 13, 2021, the admins of the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Rocket.Chat server published a post in English promoting the server, linking to several channels on the platform, and encouraging supporters to join. The post described the platform as "free from the censorship of the western media... Free from the deletion campaigns and fitnah [internal strife, and earthly temptations] on Telegram and social media and other sites. Find historical publications and media in our ever-growin...

May 14, 2021 On May 10, 2021, the media outlet of Myanmar-based Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate Katiba Al-Mahdi fi Bilad Al-Arakan, released the second issue of its English-language Arkan magazine. Katiba Al-Mahdi is a Rohingya jihadi group active in Myanmars Rakhine State, also known as Arakan, which pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Qurashi in November 2020, although ISIS has yet to officially announce its acceptance of the groups baya ("oath of allegiance")[1].The f...