The European Union’s police agency Europol said Monday it conducted a joint operation with law enforcement agencies from 12 EU member states and nine internet service providers to remove online propaganda related to the Daesh terrorist organization.
The Europol took down thousands of materials that glorify terrorism, recruit for ISIS and that update on the activities of the terror organization. It suppressed 26,000 Daesh-related pieces of content, including videos and social media accounts, during the November 21-24 operation.
As well as taking down content, police arrested a man in Spain suspected of being one of the main distributors of Daesh online propaganda. Europe has previously conducted such attacks on the ISIS cyberinfrastructure which has served as a blow to the organization especially since it is quite reliant on its resources in Europe.
