# Social Media and Terrorism **Entity class:** Information-environment concept ## Definition **Social media and terrorism** concerns the use of platforms for propaganda, recruitment, identity formation, networking, target research, intimidation, operational signaling, fundraising, and the circulation of attack templates. Platform architecture also supplies observation, attribution, disruption, and counter-messaging opportunities. ## Relevance to this collection It connects [[wiki/Information Diffusion|Information Diffusion]], [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]], [[wiki/SOCMINT|SOCMINT]], [[wiki/Innovation and Terrorism|Innovation and Terrorism]], and [[wiki/Social Media and Conflict|Social Media and Conflict]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, *Trends Alert: Member States Concerned by the Growing and Increasingly Diversified Use of New and Emerging Technologies for Terrorist Purposes*, 2022](https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/files/documents/2022/Jan/cted_trends_alert_new_and_emerging_technologies.pdf). **As of:** 2026-09-23