An ISIS-affiliated group has threatened the lives of Twitter employees who take part in the closing of accounts related to the Islamic militant group.
Users linked to ISIS tweeted a series of messages this week urging that “lone wolves” in the United States and Europe should begin targeting the social media giant.
A specific warning was made to staff at Twitter’s Silicon Valley headquarters, warning that the group would ‘bring the war’ to San Francisco.
One threat reportedly came from an Israel-based group called Al Nusra Al Maqdisia, which pledged its allegiance to ISIS earlier this year.
A tweet from the now-suspended account read: “The time has arrived to respond to Twitter’s management by directly attacking their employees and physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the sleeper cells of death.”
Another post stated: ‘Twitter management should know that if they do not stop their campaign in the virtual world, we will bring the war to them in the real world on the ground.”
The discussion focuses on how messages from terrorist groups and leaders have evolved through the years and the fact that they are now heavily tied to the same social media that ISIS is not threatening to stop.
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