The heartbroken widow of a man who was slaughtered by Islamic State terrorists is suing Twitter.
Tamara Fields is launching the lawsuit against the social networking giant, claiming it has fuelled the expansion of the terrorist group by allowing users to promote its twisted message.
ISIS has managed to recruit thousands of militants to its cause by targeting social media users, and Mrs Fields claims that Twitter is not doing enough to tackle the problem.
Her husband Lloyd was killed by Islamic State monsters who were carrying out a shooting spree against police in Jordan.
In the complaint to Twitter she wrote: “Without Twitter, the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most-feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible.”
Responding to the lawsuit, Twitter said in a statement: “While we believe the lawsuit is without merit, we are deeply saddened to hear of this family’s terrible loss.
“Violent threats and the promotion of terrorism deserve no place on Twitter and, like other social networks, our rules make that clear.”
However the common hashtags and search terms used by terrorist sympathisers are regularly used each day, with accounts seemingly operating unchallenged.
Last year Twitter was asked more than a thousand times to take down accounts and other information available on the social networking site.
Just 42% of those requests were approved.