Are Criminals Advertising, Communicating and Recruiting on Twitter?
Beyond having policies and cooperation with law enforcement agencies, what more can a social networking site do to minimize criminal activity?
Some use twitter like an RSS feed, others use it for rant-casting. According to USA Today, Twitter is also being used as a communication tool for criminals.
“Extremists spread their propaganda via video. Gangs post their colors, signs and rap songs to showcase their criminal enterprises,” the article says. “Prostitutes and drug dealers troll for new customers. Teens trash a former NFL player’s house and brag about it with photos on Twitter.”
The authors provide several reasons for this growing trend citing a study from the Simon Wiesenthal Center statistic that “Twitter helped spur a 30% growth in online forums for hate in the last year.”
The Wiesenthal study also accuses Twitter of being complacent with regard to the use of hateful and abusive speech on the network, according to the article.
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