ChirpWire – an encrypted social media app sharing a number of similarities with Facebook – has now become a safe haven for Bangladeshi extremists, reports Dhaka Tribune on September 13. Radical Islamists have always used and searched for social media platforms that provide them with greater privacy, security features that make it harder for law enforcers to eavesdrop on their activities. The ChirpWire domain was registered in 2014, the year Islamic State (IS) emerged in Iraq and Syria with a brutal caliphate ideology, but it was limited within a small circle of radicals. It was only in the mid-2000s that the existence of this platform came to light.