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Threats Made by ISIS to Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey

By Kanika Gupta | Update Date: Feb 28, 2016 05:15 PM EST

A video made by the Islamic State supporters make threats openly to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for preventing terrorism activities through their portals.

The video was released by the group "the sons of Caliphate army" in which the photographs of both the tech giant leaders were marked with bullets. The video spotted by Vocativdeep on social media service, Telegram, that is used by ISIS. The extremist group, in the video, has blamed the two for making it increasingly difficult to incite violence and promote terrorism as their accounts have been suspended and the posts are being removed.

The hackers in the video show how they are hacking into Facebook and Twitter accounts and posting Islamic State propaganda. They say that they have hacked more than 10,000 accounts on Facebook and over 150 groups. "Many of these accounts have been given to supporters," the video says. Twitter and Facebook did not comment on the issue, as reported by USA Today

"We don't want people doing that kind of stuff on Facebook," Zuckerberg said on stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.

"If we have opportunities to basically work with governments and folks to make sure that there aren't terrorist attacks then we're going to take those opportunities and we feel a pretty strong responsibility to help make sure that society is safe," Zuckerberg said.

Twitter also said that they suspended as many as 125,000 accounts that were linked with Islamic State for the last 6 months. Twitter started its crackdown on terrorists in 2014 and has been receiving death threats since then. However, this is the first time Mark Zuckerberg has been threatened openly, says Fast Company

A slide in the recently released video read: "To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook and to their Crusader government. You announce daily that you suspended 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 you (sic) sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true. #Sons_Caliphate_Army."

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