Pro-ISIS' Facebook-Style Site Goes Live, Then Dark In One Day

Despite this setback, ISIS has been largely successful with its online efforts.

khalefabookA social media site created by supporters of the terror group ISIS, CaliphateBook, went live on Sunday, but was taken offline just a day later. According to Reuters (via The Huffington Post), the Twitter account associated with the network was also brought down.

An English message on the site announced that CaliphateBook (aka 5elafabook.com or KhalefaBook) was shut down to “protect the information and details of its members and their safety.”

A front page note also says the site was not created by ISIS itself, but by supporters, acting independently.

“Islamic State supporters held a debate in a separate web forum on whether platforms like 5elafabook could be trusted or whether they could be used by IS’s enemies to gain intelligence, according to the militancy watchdog SITE Intelligence Group,” Reuters reports. The

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