Cyber Caliphate: What Apps Are the Islamic State Using?

... opinion, the expert mentioned that the messaging service had been purchased by the Israeli Company Facebook ( WhatsApp was bought by Mark Zuckerberg in 2014 for $19 billion, the messenger has 1 billion users worldwide). In the light of complaints about Telegram and WhatsApp and as laws are tightened, terrorists have become preoccupied with the creation of their own application. In January 2016, the Ghost Group , which specializes in the fight against terrorism, uncovered online an instant messaging service created by militants, Alrawi . This Android application cannot be downloaded on Google Play – it is only available on the Dark Web. Alrawi has come to take the place of Amaq — a messaging ...