{"id":232,"date":"2015-02-18T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/migs-director-set-to-fight-online\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:36","slug":"migs-director-set-to-fight-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/migs-director-set-to-fight-online\/","title":{"rendered":"MIGS director set to fight online terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By P.A. S\u00e9vigny <\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Senior Deputy Director of MIGS\u2014Montreal\u2019s Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies\u2014Kyle Matthews believes that we\u2019re already beginning to fight the Third World War and that its front lines can be easily found on the Internet. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it,\u201d he said. \u201c&#8230;we\u2019re at war, and as of now, the bad guys are winning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to Matthews, western governments should recognize and understand that ISIS\u2014the Islamic State\u2014is already using the social media as an effective medium for all of its propaganda and recruitment efforts and research indicates that they are already getting excellent results.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAfter citing assorted intelligence sources who believe that some 20,000 new recruits are already on their way to the Middle East in order to join DAESH\u2014the Islamic State, Matthews believes both governments and assorted media outlets must adopt a coherent, coordinated and comprehensive media strategy if they wish to fight the growing threat of a digital \u2018jihad\u2019 that, followed last month\u2019s <i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i> massacre. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of his research, Matthews decided that something had to be done about the digital threat and he established the Digital Mass Atrocities Prevention Lab, an organization that he hopes will become a major presence amid the front lines of the fight against the growing threat of digital extremism.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAs research continues to indicate that ISIS is continually scouring what Matthews described as \u201c&#8230;the dark side of the web,\u201d for vulnerable individuals (who may or may not have previous personal problems), he also mentioned that the digital fundamentalist sites have a lot in common with assorted \u2018extreme\u2019 porn sites that cater to the same kind of alienated and disaffected individuals as those who find a home among digital extremist \u2018chat\u2019 groups. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerror works&#8230;at least for a little while,\u201d said Matthews as he described a bare and vacant media landscape that\u2019s dominated by the epic violence that has now become part of the day\u2019s news on the Internet.<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/> With little more than a good video camera and a working Internet connection, digital activists can take advantage of their own media vacuum in order to deliver their \u2018everyone is against us\u2019 narrative that defines the entire western world as implacable enemies of their one, true, holy and apostolic interpretation of God\u2019s implacable will.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAside from their numerous Facebook profiles and (at last count) over 45,000 twitter accounts, ISIS is now using disciplined, skilled and experienced media technicians who know how to produce a growing number of professional promotion videos (in several 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