Can Google and Facebook Help Fight Against Islamic State?

  • Google, Facebook join calls for united front as U.S. responds
  • Time to fight second war in cyberspace, U.K. lawmaker says

Green light illuminates the keyboard of laptop computer as a man enters the data using the computer keyboard in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. The U.K.s biggest banks fear cyber attacks more than regulation, faltering economic growth and other potential risks, and are concerned that a hack could be so catastrophic that it could lead to a state rescue, according to a survey.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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A year before Islamic State established its extremist caliphate in Syria and Iraq, Abdulmunam Almushawah noticed a disturbing development from more than 1,000 miles away in Saudi Arabia.

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