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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, ISIS’s spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi released a video statement via the group’s Al Furqan Media Center on multiple websites that called for increased acts of terrorism, especially attacks in Saudi Arabia against American and European interests, and criticized the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for establishing diplomatic ties with Israel. An Instagram account for the French language pro-ISIS propoganda group Infos An-Nur was among the locations CEP researchers identified as posting links to help spread the statement.

Google and Apple are facing renewed scrutiny from European officials for their failure to remove—and ban in entirety—the Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored app, Euro Fatwa. The intensifying pressure comes after months of repeated government warnings that the app contains hate speech and potentially serves as a tool for Islamist radicalization. Euro Fatwa was developed by the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an organization founded by Yusuf al-Qaradawi , an Islamist theologian and the unofficial chief ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood .