Twitter suggests which terrorists to follow

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Connor Livingston
Connor Livingston
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If only the US government had used Twitter back in the day, they may have caught more of them. Twitter doesn’t just let users follow known terrorists. They recommend the best ones to follow.

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As terrorists increasingly have embraced social media, Twitter has increasingly come under criticism for hosting terror feeds. Al-Shabaab is on it sixth account after getting suspended in the past for tweeting photos of a dead French special ops soldier, and most recently the Somali terror outlet blazed through a few accounts after suspensions for gloating about the Westgate mall massacre. Their latest account, @HSM_PR, has remained active for many days now and has racked up 59 tweets. During the attack and its aftermath, journalists were checking the Shabaab feed for its latest claims and links to statements.

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