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Meet "ISIS-chan" - the anime that fights 'IS'

Jan BruckSeptember 8, 2015

'IS' is using social media as a means to openly encourage people to organize terror attacks and recruit followers. But there are many users out there who are trying to fight back. This is how ISIS-chan was born.

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How extremists target victims on Facebook and Twitter

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Cartoon exhibition, Teheran. Copyright: dpa/Bildfunk

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The cover of Moroccan magazine Nichane in 2006

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