Ashraf AboArafe
The Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (Etidal) and (Telegram) platform removed, during the period from (January-March) 2023, (6.004.218) million extremist content, and closed about (1840) channels that were used to spread and promote extremist ideas, belonging to three organizations. Terrorist (ISIS – Al-Qaeda – Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham).
The (Etidal) team was able to monitor the extremist digital activity of the three organizations in Arabic on the (Telegram) platform, which came as follows: (2,773,902) million extremist content in 477 channels affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, and (1,807,215) million extremist content. In (1040) channels affiliated with ISIS, while the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization had (1,423,101) million extremist content on (323) channels.
On January 9, 2023, the Etidal Monitoring Team recorded the highest activity in broadcasting extremist content via Telegram for the organizations referred to as (451,911) extremist content. On March 27, it recorded the highest activity in creating extremist channels for those organizations with a number of (101) channels in one day.
It is noteworthy that the joint cooperation between the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (Etidal) and the (Telegram) platform continues for the second year in a row, bringing the number of what has been removed from February 2022 to date (21,026,169) million extremist content, and closing (8,664) extremist channels.
