User talk:Technophant/Al Furqan Media Productions

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ISIS media releases[edit]

If you're interested, most if not all media releases from ISIS are stored on this analysis site http://jihadology.net/category/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-al-sham/ Gazkthul (talk) 00:16, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Gazkthul - Technophant (talk) 02:46, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Move request[edit]

As it seems that Al-Furqan Media Productions has apparently been renamed "Al-Hayat Media Center" to that or "Al Hayat Media Center" however with the launch of Ajnad Media Foundation in January to "specialize in jihadi chants" it could be more broadly moved to "Media outlets of the Islamic State". I expect there will be more media brands and renaming to come. ~Technophant (talk) 17:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually Al-Hayat is a separate media channel that specialises in producing and translating content for a non-Arabic speaking audience. Al Furqan is still active and releasing material from ISIS. At this point they have at least 3 different media distribution channels, so that page move is a good idea. Gazkthul (talk) 22:46, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1]one of the two accounts that were suspended by Twitter on June 13, 2014 was the 'al-I'tisam page, which had more than 50,000 followers and served as ISIS’s information authority. The page posted releases from the group's leadership but also produced its own small-scale media. Ajnad, another official ISIS page, tweets religious and Qur'anic citations to its 36,500 followers. Al-Furqan, ISIS's official media wing that produces its multimedia, also has a dedicated Twitter page where it posts messages from the ISIS leadership as well as videos and images of beheadings and other forms of execution to its 19,000 followers. Further, ISIS’s Twitter network, Al-Hayat Media Center, which maintains at least half a dozen pages, emphasizes on recruiting Westerns and thus provides media in English and other languages, including French, Danish, and Russian. It has approximately ten thousand followers—mainly Westerners. Gazkthul (talk) 23:14, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, Gazkthul, thanks for the info. It seems to me that it would be best to move the page to Media outlets of the Islamic State and then have 3 company infoboxes and separate sections. If one section gets too big then it can be split. The alternative would be to have 3 separate pages, which is harder to maintain and since they all have the same communal ownership and mission there's going to be a good deal of overlap. ~Technophant (talk) 04:54, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]