Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
The Telegraph: WordPress ignoring terrorist propaganda, campaigners say
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WordPress.com has hosted hundreds of links to extremist videos, as well as propaganda pages from the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (Isil), according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US anti-terror think tank. The CEP has repeatedly reported the pages to WordPress in the last 18 months, but the calls have gone unanswered. David Ibsen, the group’s executive director, said the site was one of “the biggest problems” in dealing with terror online and “is being widely misused by all the different extremist groups”.
Date
November 24, 2017
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