Comments on: How Online Propaganda Works https://www.jihadica.com/how-online-propaganda-works/ documenting the global jihad Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.19 By: Selected Wisdom https://www.jihadica.com/how-online-propaganda-works/#comment-2733 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:50:39 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=1058#comment-2733 Here’s another study explaining how people behave in social media. Less than 1% are in the extreme. Trying to counter the small number of extremists on line through social media is inefficient and ineffective. Better to identify the extremists using social media, then try to influence their behavior through direct engagement on a direct person-to-person basis.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/06/20/inside_the_mind_of_the_anonymous_online_poster/?page=full

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