(National Post) A new report says that terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda use AI on social media to inspire lone wolf attacks against the Jewish community in the United States. But Canadians are not exempt from this kind of targeted recruitment online.
The report was released on Feb. 3 by nonprofit foundation the Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), which exposes and counters online extremist activity. Its founding president Marc Ginsberg is an expert on cyberterrorism and extremist violence fuelled by social media. He is also a former White House Mideast advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco.
“I don’t think ISIS and Al-Qaeda are doing anything, per se, to differentiate between the United States and (the rest of) North America,” said Ginsberg, speaking to the National Post on Wednesday. “There’s no differentiation just because we have a physical border.”
