ISISPro-ISIS hackers issue threats to Facebook, Twitter founders

Pro-ISIS hackers have released a video threatening the founders of Facebook and Twitter in retaliation for the two social media giants’ campaign to take down ISIS-related accounts.

Endgadget reports that in a 25-minute video circulated Tuesday afternoon, pictures of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey were shown superimposed with bullet holes.

The video – which terror analyst Rita Katz described as “looking like something an elementary student threw together one night before the project was due”— shows hackers taking over social media accounts, changing profile pictures, and using them to disseminate jihadist propaganda.

The video was uploaded and shared by a group calling itself “Sons Caliphate Army” – which the Web site Intel Group has described as the latest “rebrand” of ISIS’s supporters online.

Text appearing on the video reads: “You announce daily that you suspend many of our accounts, and to you we say: Is that all you can do? You are not in our league.

“If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete you [sic] sites, Allah willing, and will know that [sic] we say is true.”

Twitter announced earlier this month that it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts since the middle of 2015 “for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.”

“We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter Rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service,” the company said.

Facebook has said there is “no place for terrorists on Facebook.” Spokesman Andrew Souvall said: “We work aggressively to ensure that we do not have terrorists or terror groups using the site, and we also remove any content that praises or supports terrorism.”