Facebook let terror suspect post 386 ISIS links including videos in just a month ‘just because he asked them’
Facebook administrators repeatedly suspended Abdulrahman Alcharbati for posting ISIS videos, only to be later persuaded to reactivate the account and let him post the videos again
FACEBOOK repeatedly allowed a terror suspect to post ISIS videos — just because he asked them, a court heard yesterday.
Clips showing motorbikes dragging three Syrian soldiers to their death and brainwashed children training were taken down only to be reinstated.
In others jihadists were urged to attack Westerners and “whack them with a rock, cut their throat with a knife, crush them with a car, suffocate or poison them,” it was said.
Engineer Abdulrahman Alcharbati made 386 posts between January 24 and February 26 last year — 70 referring to ISIS and 40 about martyrdom in their name, the jury heard. In a nine-hour spell Alcharbati, of Sunderland, put up six videos produced by ISIS, it was said.
Prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told Newcastle crown court that Alcharbati was repeatedly informed by Facebook administrators his material “contravened guidelines”.
They kept suspending his account but, he added, 31-year-old Alcharbati “persuaded Facebook to re-enable his account and carried on posting the same material”.
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The dad of one denies disseminating terrorist material and possessing instructions on making two types of suicide vests.
The trial continues.