Jihadis, including those supporting Al-Qaeda, have begun using the Curious Cat social media platform to anonymously answer questions about jihad and travelling to Syria. Curious Cat, which users may choose to link to either Twitter or Facebook accounts, is a social network designed to allow users to easily answer their followers' questions publicly or anonymously. The company was founded by Nuno and Marco Balbona and has been owned and operated since April 2018 by South Korean company Vonvon, Inc. Curious Cat's About page says it takes part in "proactive monitoring of our content and full collaboration with law enforcement in their investigations."[1] The service's Terms Of Service does not mention terrorist or criminal use of the platform.[2] Its Privacy Policy says that the platform will share information with law enforcement "only if we are under a duty to disclose or share user's Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligation (for example, if required to do so under applicable law, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime)."[3]
To see a
MEMRI JTTM report about how one jihadi uses Curious Cat, JTTM subscribers can
click here.
[1] Curiouscat.me/about, accessed March 4, 2019.
[2] Curiouscat.me/terms, accessed March 4, 2019.
[3] Curiouscat.me/privacy, accessed March 4, 2019.
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