Monitoring online groups offers insight into ISIS attacks
New analysis identifies patterns in terrorists’ social network activity
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VIRTUAL TERROR Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobane during a 2014 attack by Iraqi Kurdish forces on Islamic State fighters who had taken over the settlement. Researchers say a new computer model may be able to use patterns of pro-ISIS group formation on social networks to predict the timing of terrorist attacks.
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