ISIS threatens to kill Twitter founder and employees

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is now squarely in the crosshairs of ISIS supporters, according to an online message believed to have been posted by the militant group on Sunday.

The message in question, uploaded anonymously to JustPaste.it, urges individual jihadis all over the world to target Twitters headquarters and kill its employees.

Dont allow any one of the atheists to survive, reads the post, which includes a graphic depicting Dorseys face in the cross sights of a gun.

The death threats appear to be in response to Twitters practice of blocking ISIS-related accounts on its network.

While Twitter is far from the only social media company to ban accounts for publishing graphic or obscene content, the network has been highlighted in the pressrecently as a primary ISIS recruitment tool.

As wereported previously, Twitter has been cracking down harder on ISIS militants in the past year for violating the companys terms of service.

According to the Daily Dot, as many as 20,000 ISIS-supporting accounts were banned last month in a matter of days as the group prepared for an online freedom of speech protest.

Sundays message threatening Dorsey addresses the tensions between ISIS and Twitter directly.

Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you reads a translation of the post published by Buzzfeed News.

We told you from the beginning its not your war, but you didnt get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back, the message continues. But when our lions [brave men] come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.

Buzzfeed was first to report on the message as it started circulating among ISIS supporters on Twitter (of all places.)

Our security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with relevant law enforcement officials, said company spokesman Jim Prosser to the online news outlet.

This is not the first time ISIS has called for the assassination of Twitter employees. As CBS reported, an account on the social network was also shut down in September for issuing similar threats.