News report

# Islamic State propaganda efforts struggle after Telegram takedowns, report says

CyberScoop, July 28, 2020. Islamic State platform migration: after the November 2019 Europol-coordinated referral action in which Telegram removed thousands of terrorist accounts, IS supporters shifted distribution to fringe services including the Russia-based TamTam and Canada-hosted Hoop Messenger.

**Source type:** News report

**Published:** July 28, 2020

**Research grade:** S1

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** CyberScoop

**Published:** July 28, 2020

**Source type:** News report

**Research grade:** Source grade S1

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://cyberscoop.com/islamic-state-propaganda-telegram-europol/](https://cyberscoop.com/islamic-state-propaganda-telegram-europol/)

**What it supports:** Islamic State platform migration: after the November 2019 Europol-coordinated referral action in which Telegram removed thousands of terrorist accounts, IS supporters shifted distribution to fringe services including the Russia-based TamTam and Canada-hosted Hoop Messenger

**Dataset id:** src\_cyberscoop\_is\_telegram\_takedowns\_2020

## Research notes

- By Jeff Stone.
- published\_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2020-07-28T16:51:08+00:00).

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## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[Islamic State propaganda migration to TamTam and Hoop Messenger](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/islamic-state-online-propaganda-referral-action-november-2019)

Same service on replacement infrastructure, Islamic State online propaganda referral action (November 2019)

Later outcome

[All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)