The five best Twitter accounts for Islamic State news

Follow these people on Twitter to sort through the deluge of information – and misinformation – on Islamic State

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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According to a Sky News investigation, almost 30,000 Twitter accounts have been set up by Islamic State sympathisers since the social network said it would try to stop them after the murder or US journalist James Foley.

Simultaneously an outpouring of sympathy for Foley and another American journalist Steven Sotloff who was murdered this week, and a wave of outrage over the tactics of IS has meant Twitter is now flooded with updates on the militant group.

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