ISIS threatens Facebook and Twitter in new propaganda video

'You are not in our league.'

In its latest propaganda video, ISIS calls out Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, creators of Facebook and Twitter, to claim militant hackers will reactivate pro-Islam accounts.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to Vocativ, the 25-minute video features images of both Zuckerberg and Dorsey with bullet holes torn through them.

The propaganda film, "Flames of The Supporters," is filled with threats, talk about suspended accounts on the social media websites and finally concludes with a direct threat towards both Zuckerberg and Dorsey.

"You announce daily that you suspend many of our accounts, and to you we say: Is that all you can do? You are not in our league. If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete your sites, Allah willing, and will know what we say is true."

The announcements the video referred to include Twitter's announcement earlier this month that 125,000 ISIS accounts have been deleted and anti-terror teams were expanded.

Facebook's policies state "You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence."

With Facebook's policy in mind, thousands of its 1.49 billion accounts are habitually reported and deleted or suspended.

A group of ISIS hackers going by the name "the sons of the Caliphate army" released the propaganda video and claimed they could easily hack Facebook and Twitter accounts simply by changing profile pictures.

The group claimed it is responsible for hacking over 10,000 Facebook accounts, over 150 Facebook groups, and over 5,000 Twitter accounts.

In their video, ISIS claims: "If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete you [sic] sites, Allah willing, and will know that [sic] we say is true."

One Twitter spokesman said: "Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups. We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism."

To help fight ISIS propaganda on each social media sites, Twitter keeps 100 employees searching for and flagging accounts while Facebook keeps thousands of staff and terror specialists working to eradicate sympathizers from the site.

Though security has been tightened, Facebook's Middle East and Africa chief Simon Milner admitted there is only so much they can do.

"We would love to be able to press a button to get rid of them but we can't," he told MPs. It takes a lot of effort, a lot of resources and a lot of intelligence."

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