Living their lives on social media

A Denver girl has 9000 tweets on Twitter. She and two other teenagers were lured by Islamic State jihadists to come to Syria. They were stopped in Germany and returned to their parents. Two of the girls were originally from Somalia and one from the Sudan.

Did the authorities return them to their parents because those parents are now going to put a stop to their use of social media?

From the Denver Post story:

Three Arapahoe County girls who apparently tried to join the Islamic State conversed through the Internet with at least two of its terrorists, including a high-level handler, and swiftly radicalized within the span of about a year, according to an international terror monitoring organization.

An analysis of social media accounts held by the girls shows their departure from the mainstream and hasty acceptance of extremist views, the Search for International Terrorist Entities Intelligence Group, also known as SITE, said in a report this week.

The Bethesda, Md.-based nongovernmental organization conducts private threat assessments. It began looking into the girls' online activities after news reports about their failed attempt to travel to Syria.

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