The rise and fall of Islamic State's propaganda machine

Name: The rise and fall of Islamic State's propaganda machine
Uploaded: 2018-02-02T00:39:14+00:00
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: How IS used online videos and social media to spread its message - and why it suddenly dried up.

Horrific videos, slick production, social media saturation - the Islamic State group has used online propaganda like no other terrorist organisation in history.

But in September 2017, it went from a torrent to a trickle. What happened?

BBC Monitoring looks at the rise and fall of IS’s propaganda machine.

Video by Jilla Dastmalchi

Published: 2 February 2018
Section: BBC News
Subsection: Middle East