Jammu Tawi, Aug. 3 -- Security agencies have uncovered a new trend among some youngsters in the Kashmir Valley of using social media to glorify separatist and terrorist figures not out of ideological conviction, but as a calculated tactic to gain followers and earn money from advertisers.
Srinagar police, which has been making every effort to track social media sites to counter the radicalisation process, found out about this modus operandi after detaining some youth behind such accounts.
During interrogation, the youngsters allegedly admitted that the employment of inflammatory imagery - such as that of slain terrorist Burhan Wani of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen - was a calculated plan to gain a high and active fan base.
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