Defeat ISIS? There’s an app for that

“Hundreds of Americans have gone to join ISIS in Syria, and U.S. officials are desperate to find new ways to blunt the group's recruitment efforts. Extremist recruiters are masters at social media while government officials are still learning to use those tools effectively. So the Obama administration has turned to a group of social media experts - millennials. …

“DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, BYLINE: The name of the initiative aimed at shaking ISIS's dominance in social media is called Peer 2 Peer: Challenging Extremism. It's premised on the idea that the best way to challenge terrorist groups is to deploy the very people they're trying to recruit - young people.”

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/05/412177020/white-house-invites-millennials-to-thwart-isis-recruitment-efforts?utm_content=buffer802f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

On Monday, President Obama said the U.S. does not yet have a complete strategy for defeating ISIS. I guess we’re going to Tweet them to death through boredom.

https://ricochet.com/isis-our-non-strategy-and-our-too-calm-republican-candidates/