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Social SciencesConflict StudiesSociologyDigital Political CommunicationSocial MovementsTerrorism StudiesCyber WarfareInformation WarfareInsurgent PropagandaTerrorist MotivationsTerrorist OrganizationsTerrorist TacticsCyber TerrorismOnline Extremist PropagandaSocial Movement PoliticsTerrorist Group MobilizationTerrorist Group PropagandaTerrorist Group Radicalization
Al-Qaeda has transformed itself into an organic social movement, using the Internet to make its virulent ideology accessible to anyone with a computer. For the United States to defeat al-Qaeda and the broader jihadi movement, it must first gain a better appreciation of the ways in which the movement is successfully fueling itself by harnessing new technologies.