Facebook emerges as 'terrorist recruiting ground'

A Department of Homeland Security report said extremists had focused on the social networking website as a way to identify sympathisers and disseminate information on bomb making.

It said terrorists are trying to exploit a “non-ideological medium” which allows them to reach a wider audience, and are specifically infiltrating Facebook because it has 500 million users.

Investigators looking at the website found videos on “getting to know your AK-47″ and “how to field strip an AK-47,” and instructions on how to make nitric acid.

The report, which was leaked to Fox News, said: “In this way Facebook acts as a gateway or launching pad for further radicalisation and for easy access to sites where explosives recipes and IED information are regularly posted.”

On recognised extremist internet forums the investigators found discussions among radicals about the need to make “serious efforts to optimise our Facebook usage” and form a “solid base” on the website.

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