Kimberly Dozier, Daily Beast: Anti-ISIS-Propaganda Czar’s Ninja War Plan: We Were Never Here.
Forget Twitter wars with hard-core extremists—the U.S. is going after jihadis the same way Amazon targets your shopping habits.
The Obama administration is launching a stealth anti-Islamic State messaging campaign, delivered by proxies and targeted to individual would-be extremists, the same way Amazon or Google sends you shopping suggestions based on your online browsing history.
At least that’s the plan, revealed Monday, of new anti-ISIS message czar Michael Lumpkin, now that the White House has put the ink to the final legal measures establishing the Center for Global Engagement, which replaces previous less-than-successful efforts. The new executive order (PDF) expands what Lumpkin can spend, who he can hire, and which parts of the U.S. government he can pull into the new campaign.
“I intend to do what we have done in special operations” to hunt ISIS terrorists, Lumpkin told The Daily Beast. “You need a network to defeat a network, so we’re going to take a network approach to our messaging.”
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WNU Editor: This type of message targeting works for the free market .... but I am still sceptical that it will work against followers of radical Islam and/or the Islamic State who have already been indoctrinated or sympathetic with their ideology. I guess time will tell if this approach works.
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An excellent opportunity to polish up a system to later deal with those pesky citizens.
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