[1][2] Their tactics comprise parody, as to discredit jihadist propaganda; surveying and reporting offending accounts; and infiltrating cyber-jihadist networks as to prevent terrorist attacks.
[7] The Islamic State fields an elaborate media strategy[8][9] based on extreme cruelty,[10] high technical expertise[11][12] and psychological manipulation.
[16] Between battles, they would share moments of fun (dubbed "lol-jihad")[17] within an idealised proto-state, complete with a booming economy and efficient public services.
The aim was to disrupt terrorist propaganda using humour and mockery as means of resilience,[3][25] deconstructing the misleading motive of an invincible jihad in an ideal Caliphate,[26] and oppose the violence of its images.
Following the January 2015 terrorist attacks, thousands of pro-terrorist messages appeared on Twitter with the hashtags #JeSuisKouachi and #JeSuisCoulibaly, as opposed to #JeSuisCharlie.
[citation needed] The Katiba des Narvalos (from Arabic for "battalion" and Romani slang for "madman") emerged from the coalescence of the first anti-ISIS trolls, member of Anonymous taking part in #opCharlieHebdo, and other individual activists.
[2] The militants, dubbed "Narvalos" (masculine) and "Narvalettes" (feminine) come from all venues of life, all religions and any age, more or less representative of France including its overseas territories.
[41] It notably targeted French jihadists Omar Omsen and Rachid Kassim, as well as the Al-Hayat Media Center (main editing and production organ of the Islamic State).
[49] Due to these propaganda-disrupting activities, the "Cyber" division of ISIS, led by Junaid Hussain, put some members of the group on kill lists.
In 2016, Internet activities of Daech fighters and propagandists have noticeably receded on Twitter, at least in French language, due to accelerating suspensions of their accounts.
"[3] On 1 May 2015, two days before a Muhammad drawing and caricature competition was due to take place in Garland, Texas, Narvalette Khalan Cypher reported an imminent terrorist attack to the police.
[57][58] In the following months, cooperation between the Katiba des Narvalos, the Controlling Section and Ghost Security with antiterrorist authorities made it possible to arrest terrorist cells that were preparing attacks in July 2015 in Tunisia[59][60] and New York City[61][62] In 2017, the Katiba detected a threatening person on Telegram, identified him as Riad Ben Cheikh and geolocalised him at La Réunion, before notifying authorities.