Activist hackers battle Islamic State in cyberspace


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 Nov 2015

French police secure the area outside a housing complex as police conduct a door-to-door search operation in the Neudorf neighborhood in Strasbourg, France, November 16, 2015. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Islamic State sympathizers using social media to spread propaganda and recruit fighters are now drawing an increasing amount of return fire from activists who have been knocking some sites offline and infiltrating others.

The loose hacking collective Anonymous is the latest to draw attention to such campaigns, with members claiming credit this week for having thousands of pro-IS Twitter accounts disabled.

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