A team of analysts at King’s College in London is building an exhaustive database of western Islamic State fighters – through Twitter and Facebook. Another Briton had died in Syria, and back in London investigators were busy “scraping” through his online peer network for clues about fellow Islamic State (Isis) foot soldiers. It was little surprise that Rhonan Malik knew two Canadian brothers, Gregory and Collin Gordon. After all, Twitter rumours suggested that all three had been killed in the same December air strike. More intriguing was the prodigious Facebook presence of Collin Gordon which indicated that, shortly before becoming a jihadist, he had been “quite the party boy”.
It is interesting that social media can be used to track people or even find clues of deaths of people who are related to Isis. It cannot always be reliable however, therefore people should be careful before coming to conclusions through the evidence of social media only.
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