ISIS threatens Twitter employees in U.S. and Europe

ISIS threatens Twitter employees in U.S. and Europe
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A popular ISIS-affiliated Twitter account is calling for the assassination of Twitter employees in San Francisco and Europe. The threats come in response to Twitter's policy of shutting down ISIS Twitter accounts.

Vocativ, who first reported the news, says that the threatening tweets are circulating among ISIS supporters and are part of a larger campaign by ISIS supporters against Twitter. The campaign involves ISIS forums hosting discussions on circumventing Twitter's ISIS account bans as well as how to "attack" Western and American Twitter accounts by "flooding them with ISIS propaganda."

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.