Twitter, Facebook are "in denial" as terrorists use social media Terror tools ... Social media networks are "in denial" about the face Islamic extremists are using them to command and control operations, the head of UK intelligence says. SOCIAL media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are in denial about the fact they are the "command-and-control networks of choice" for militant groups like Islamic State, the head of Britain's intelligence agency says. Propaganda ... a screen grab from an Islamic State group affiliated Twitter account purports to show senior military commander Abu Wahib handing a flower to a child while visiting southern Iraq, as part of the group's broad social media campaign. Picture: AP "There's no need for today's would-be jihadis to seek out restricted websites with secret passwords: they can follow other young people posting their adventures in Syria as they would anywhere else," Mr Hannigan wrote in the Financial Times. His comments come as Western intelligence agencies scramble to combat Islamic State online propaganda, with jihadists often tweeting disturbing images from Syria and Iraq. The US has also launched a "Think Again Turn Away" campaign in Arabic to combat online Islamist propaganda by IS. Online battle ... a grab from the US Department of State's Twitter page "Think Again Turn Away," criticises the Islamic State group as part of a broad social media campaign. Picture: AP Source: Supplied