Websites and social media accounts affiliated with Somalia's al-Shabab militants continue to operate and spread the group's messages despite a relentless effort by Somalia's government to shut them down.
Websites and social media accounts affiliated with Somalia's al-Shabab militants continue to operate and spread the group's messages despite a relentless effort by Somalia's government to shut them down.
Al-Adala says he believes removing known accounts that had thousands of followers is a significant achievement. The move did not come without protest. One website that was shut down, Somalimemo, says it is an independent news site and serves the Somali people, and has no affiliation with any organization, group, government or any other political side.
"These strategies include using long multimedia content in Somali," he said."Content moderation tools often struggle with long-form content and languages like Somali due to limited training data." He says al-Shabab is one of the most sophisticated actors in terms of the ways that it uses the internet to share its material.
Defectors say al-Shabab spends a lot of money translating these messages into English, Arabic, Swahili and Amharic.
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