Dreaded terror sect, the Islamic State has threatened the founders of Facebook and Twitter over their attempts to lock the sect from social media.
ISIS threatened Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter 's CEO Jack Dorsey in a new chilling video.
In the 25-minute film extremists hackers claim they are fighting back against efforts by the social media giants to wipe their platforms of accounts promoting terrorism.
Pictures of the two founders can be seen being blasted with a hail of bullets in the amateur footage which emerged today.
The video titled "Flames of the Supporters" and released by a group calling themselves "the sons of the Caliphate army", ends with a direct threat to the two men.
It says: "To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook and to their Crusader government.
"You announce daily that you suspend many of our accounts. And to you we say: Is that all you can do?"
"You are not in our league," the voiceover continues."If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete you sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true [sic]."
Part of the video also appears to show them hacking Facebook and Twitter accounts by changing profile pictures and posting ISIS propaganda.
The terrorists claim they've hacked more than 10,000 Facebook accounts, more than 150 Facebook groups and more than 5,000 Twitter profiles.
Twitter confirmed it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts this month.
The accounts were mostly related to Islamic State activities and have been shut down over the past eight months.
Islamic State is known to use social media to radicalise and lure recruits, prompting Twitter to “significantly” increase the size of its reviewing team. The company said it had already had seen “an increase in account suspensions and this type of activity shifting off of Twitter”.
But it added there was no magic formula for identifying terrorist content.
In a statement a Twitter spokesman said: “Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups. We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism.”
This is coming after Facebook, Twitter and Google were told to help ramp up Britain's terror fight by MPs earlier this month.
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