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Social media and its role 
for LEAs: Review and 
applications
P. Saskia Bayerl, Babak Akhgar, Ben Brewster, Konstantinos Domdouzis,
Helen Gibson
INTRODUCTION
Social media has become a major aspect of online activity, and thus an essential part 
of cybercrime and cyber terrorism-related operations. As LEA's (law enforcement 
agencies) focus on cybercrime and cyber terrorism threats increases, so does the 
requirement to consider the potential application of social media as a vital aspect 
of any cyber defense strategy. In order to develop an understanding of cyber-related 
activity, an appreciation of social media's role in society is required to enable the 
development of strategies that tackle not only cybercrime and cyber terrorism, but 
also crimes facilitated through the use of social media. These include its potential 
exploitation in combatting a wide variety of criminal threats, such as those identi-
fied in the scenarios in the section “LEA Usage Scenarios for Social Media,” and 
ultimately in the development of competitive advantage over a wide variety of illicit 
criminal activity.
Although social media is often associated with large network services such as 
Facebook and Twitter, the term social media refers to a larger family of service 
platforms. These services can be clustered into six groups (
Kaplan and Haenlein, 
2010
):