Threat depicting Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey
ISIS supporters are issuing death threats to Twitter employees after the social media site began blocking all accounts associated with the terrorist group.
The Guardian is reporting that the threats were issued to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and other employees of the company through the image-sharing site, JustPaste.it.
In Arabic, the threat said, “your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you,” and warned that Dorsey and Twitter employees have “become a target for the soldiers of the Caliphate and supporters scattered among your midst!”
“You started this failed war … We told you from the beginning it’s not your war, but you didn’t get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.”
It goes on to say that Twitter employees’ necks would “become a target for the soldiers of the Caliphate.”
“For the ‘individual jihadi’ all over the world, target the Twitter company and its interests in any place, people, and buildings, and don’t allow any one of the atheists to survive,” the message instructed.
The threats come in response to Twitter’s policy of identifying users who are associated with ISIS and moving aggressively to ban them from using the network to spread their propaganda. More than 100 people are employed by Twitter just to monitor accounts and have been able to shut down offenders within minutes of their sent tweets.
This isn’t the first time Twitter has come under fire from the group for deleting its accounts. Last September the company’s San Francisco headquarters was threatened if the company continued to delete their accounts.
One message appearing on another social media site stated that “Twitter management should know that if they do not stop their campaign in the virtual world, we will bring the war to them in the real world on the ground.”
Another read: “Every Twitter employee in San Francisco in the United States should bear in mind and watch over himself because on his doorstep there might be a lone wolf assassin waiting.”
Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser told Buzzfeed that “our security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with relevant law enforcement officials”.
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