Foreign Policy magazine ran an article this week that positions
Twitter as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda:
There's a new jihadist recruiter on the Internet. Based in San Francisco and backed by a multimillion dollar bankroll, the recruiter orchestrates thousands of introductions every day, connecting people at risk of radicalization with extremist clerics and terrorist propagandists - even facilitating online meetings with hardcore al Qaeda members.
The recruiter is Twitter, and it's shaking up the world of online radicalization in ways both large and small.
This is ridiculous on its face, of course. Twitter is no more an Al-Qaeda recruiter than Craigslist is a ****.
