First published 2017
Malcolm Nance and Christopher Sampson reveal the digital machinery behind ISIS propaganda operations. Drawing from Nance's 35 years in Middle East special operations and Sampson's 15 years analyzing terrorist media, the authors dissect how the Islamic State transforms religious messaging into cultism. They show how ISIS targets vulnerable individuals across all backgrounds, flooding cyberspace with tens of thousands of propaganda pieces daily through Dark Web networks. The Terror Asymmetrics Project spent two years infiltrating these online operations to map their tactics. The book demonstrates how ISIS wins the digital battlefield by brainwashing followers and spreading brutal content globally. Nance and Sampson provide concrete methods for ordinary internet users to combat this digital threat and remove ISIS from online spaces.
Genres: history, politics, non-fiction, 21st-century, current-affairs, academic
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism
Setting: Middle East
Period: 21st Century
320 pages · Hardcover · Skyhorse
Content warnings: violence