address of an officer training syrian rebels. isis the she have proclaimed terror group actively recruitings social media. as the news media figure out how to cover isis is isis pursuing a deliberate and destructive media strategy of its own. here to take us inside is the co-author of the book isis, inside the army of terror ction michael weiss. thanks for having me on. let s start. the isis slogan don t hear about us hear from us what does it mean and how is the group using social media to recruit, convince and persuade these folks to fall in line and do these things? well they have a very strategic and savvy propaganda conceit which is that if you go back to the 90s or the 80s when jihadism was still a rather marginal affair, these guys had to rely on how the western press would disseminate their messages. you had journalists like lawrence wright going to