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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
What ended ISIS was the people turned on them. The US and Iraqis used a targeted social media and disinformation campaign that undermined ISIS and completely stemmed the flow of bodies and money into their network. Their recruitment efforts were nullified and that made them vulnerable to attrition, something they never had to face prior to that. Stemming the flow of money put an expiration date on the organization but when the people started ratting them out, and making them easy targets, their extinction came quickly.
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You are distorting what historically happened to fit your own narrative. Funding of ISIS from never came from social media, from ISIS's own captured records it was primarily oil and gas revenues, sale of illicitly obtained cultural artifacts, extortion/kidnappings/ransom, and taxes on captured areas. Funding from online sources is a distant sixth place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financ...0organizations
Coalition forces ran concerted campaigns to cut off ISIS oil supplies and sales. This directly lead to ISIS being forced to cut militant salaries by a third while forcing huge taxes on areas they occupied. The local populations being levied huge taxes, lots of which were for minor religious violations, did far more to alienate them from local communities, cutting recruitment, and thereby accelerating their decline than any social media campaign (which barely any study on the decline of ISIS mentions). Conflicts and war are always sustained logistics and funding. Can't recruit, campaign, or arm if you don't have money.
https://theglobalcoalition.org/ar/%D...7%D8%B9%D8%B4/