By Ian Burrell

Its slick messaging and sophisticated exploitation of latest techniques in mass communications have drawn comparison with the Nazi propaganda machine but there are signs that the Islamic State’s notorious media operation is starting to come apart.

Experts consulted by The Drum have observed a deterioration in the once high production values of IS videos, while its accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are being systematically closed down and its supporters on social media outed by anti-IS vigilantes and journalists.

With IS under intense pressure from coalition bombardment and fighting on various fronts in the past year, a dramatic fall-off in jihadis newly Read full story ›

Source: The Drum