thirdly, basically what they re doing is mocking the notion that the americans are going to provide any type of real support. so they take a real photo and put their own captions and headlines over them. correct. but they re consistently sarcastic. and trying to be super cool too. you say sometimes they re drinking energy drinks, posing as adrenaline junkies. hey, we re cool, join our fight kind of thing. next up, the app assault. they even have apps for this? right. google took down this app. it s no longer available. basically what they did is had their supporters download this app so when isis wanted to distribute propaganda, it would simultaneously update all of the twitter accounts of their followers at once, creating a viral message. finally, youtube recruitment. right. very slick english language videos are being distributed right now celebrating their attacks. they re making a big push for english language speaking individuals to join their group. thanks, ryan. th
base for terrorist operations. specifically, this group isis. the group has taken over a third of iraq. more vicious than al qaeda. but one of the most impressive, for lack of a better term, qualities they have is in social media. they put together these very slick video productions. very, very good at using twitter in order to create a media narrative. and it s clear that in terms of the social media competition among terrorists, this group is winning. you ve broken this out in three specific ways. let s go one by one. the first one is memes of terror. what does that mean? let s talk about that. it s your typical meme you might see making a joke on facebook or anywhere else, except this is often written in english. you have the example right there that someone involved with the intelligence community sent to me yesterday. if you look at the different messages there, first they re saying the iraqi government has no soul because it collaborates with the united states. secondly, they