|
When we first declared war on terror after 9/11, the current major social media platforms did not even exist. Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, and Twitter in 2006. Now, the Islamic State advances its message and recruits Americans and other people to its cause through these platforms. In February, the State Department admitted we are losing the war with ISIS on the social media front. But instead of fanning a counter-flame of a grassroots social media effort, the U.S. and her allies instead set up a
command-and-control headquarter
that doesn't even yet have a website or a YouTube page.
While the U.S. and her allies work on drafting what they want to say and how they want to say it so as not to offend anyone, ISIS continues to spew and spread its murderous ideology around the globe - on free-speech platforms created and launched by Americans. What we've got here is failure to communicate. Read more ...
Be sure to share this article on Facebook and Twitter.
#ISIS=genocide
|
