(ABC News) The FBI's top counterterrorism official offered a blunt assessment today of U.S. efforts to stop ISIS from spreading its merciless message online: "We are losing the battle."
The terrorist group wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq as it blasts videos of beheadings to the world "has proven dangerously competent like no other group before it at employing [online] tools for its nefarious strategy," the head of the FBI's counterterrorism division, Assistant Director Michael Steinbach, told lawmakers today.
He said the FBI and other U.S. agencies have implemented "an effective counter narrative" online, but "the sheer volume" of ISIS messaging online, particularly through social media, "eclipses our effort."
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