The media's role in the funding of ISIS is tremendous. The media covers multiple parts of this organization and they use that to their advantage. The extremist group lets the media capture everything they do to spread their cause. They even announce things that they have done to the world just so the media will put it out. The group has hundreds of social media accounts that have numerous purposes.
ISIS uses these social media pages to help recruit soldiers to fight for their cause. They put things like goals and their beliefs on these pages to try and appeal to people that would believe the same thing that they do. This is how they have been growing. Many people read all about this group and realize that they are fighting for something they can agree with. They are usually younger people that are recruited because this is the group that uses the internet and social media the most.
The extremist groups gets donations from very wealthy people in the Qatar area due to the government's very loose currency exchangement policies. Money is transferred through social media pages and illegal pages such as the black market. Again, all of these people who are donating have been following the cause from propaganda that the media is portraying. The media is helping ISIS grow as a whole and will continue to grow until the world does something about it.
Interesting post. A tad late, though.
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