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Extremist Thought in The New Media and Its Impact on Society… F. Abdel Sater et al (153
These results showed that bloodshed and intellectual
the YouTube platform ranked extremism, especially the mass
first among the visual media executions that the whole
used and social networking world watched on YouTube in
sites in displaying debates and 2015, the individuals belonging
programs presented by the to certain sects, consider to be
Defense Network followed by enemies and infidels, so it is
the Twitter blog in attracting necessary to punish them with
those who openly express death based on the extremist
hostility to a specific Islamic ideology, which was published
doctrine and support the under Islamic titles and
violence to which they are intellectual debates, such as
exposed based on Takfiri Defending the Companions
Fatwas that were broadcast by the and Mothers of the Believers
network. On the aforementioned network through its channels.
platform, YouTube recorded a YouTube's lack of seriousness
rate of 49%, compared to in deleting extremist material
Twitter, which received 18%, played a pivotal role in the
while Facebook did not exceed occurrence of terrorist acts
8%, these percentages seem to because of the extremist and
be normal in the circumstances inflammatory thought broadcast
of the spread of new media on its platform (Morjan, 2017), in
platforms that have played a major which the Countering Extremism
role in spreading sectarian strife Project documented 1348 videos
and incitement. on YouTube, that garnered
It was recorded that a high thousands of views for an
rate of extremism in 2010-2015 extremist group in 2018, which
led to violence and intellectual is still using the platform to
extremism, the origin of which publish videos with extremist
was primarily the debates and content, despite YouTube
dialogues that were broadcast implementing the removal
on social media (Morjan, 2017), decision (Yamani, 2019).
which instilled hatred, murder,
