To Torment ISIS, Anonymous Unleash Their Most Powerful Weapon Yet
By: Vandita
Anonymous’ biggest operation ever, #OpParis, has a new weapon – Rickrolling. After taking down 5500 social media accounts related to the terrorist group, the hacktivists have adopted rickrolling to disrupt ISIS militants from communicating with each other on social media.
Our upcoming action: spamming verified ISIS hashtags with rickrolls. Will release the list as soon as it's compiled.
— #OpParis (@OpParisOfficial) Νοέμβριος 18, 2015
According to Bloomberg, Anonymous are using the age-old rickrolling meme – in which a person pretends to hyperlink to one site but instead links to the video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up” – to disrupt the terrorist group’s efforts to create threads and trending topics on social media.
Among the group’s strategies is finding out and flooding all hashtags that are used by ISIS and potential recruits and spamming them with memes and rickroll videos, so that they become unusable and extremists find it harder to communicate.
We report that at the moment more than 11.000 Twitter accounts pro #ISIS are down. #OpParis #Anonymous #ParisAttacks
— #OpParis (@OpParisOfficial) Νοέμβριος 23, 2015
We report that now begins the session offensive. Any site or accounts found pro-#ISIS must be attacked! #Anonymous #TangoDownISIS #OpParis
— #OpParis (@OpParisOfficial) Νοέμβριος 23, 2015
#OpParis supporters have also taken to calling members of the group “Daeshbags”.
ISIS, this is a war you cannot win. We will wipe you #Daeshbags off the internet as well as your goats. #OpParis #OpISIS
— Anonymous (@AnonPratak) Νοέμβριος 23, 2015
— ANONYMOUS JOBS (@AnonymousJobsUS) Νοέμβριος 23, 2015
Daeshbags #OpParis #opiceisis TOS violations please suspend. @Support @safety https://t.co/hj22qMDN4a
— OpMopUpISIS_Japan (@jovi_anon) Νοέμβριος 9, 2015
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