State Department Is Fighting Jihadist Propaganda With Social Media

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the U.S. State Department is actively countering online propaganda posted by terrorists groups such as al-Qaeda by posting videos and other content of its own. Clinton's comments about the digital propaganda duel came during her testimony to the House of Representatives regarding the September 2012 attack on an American consolate in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton's full comments (which you can also view in the video above):

"Social media is a great tool. We've begun trying to use it much more in the State Department -- and not to communicate with just leaders and officials but really to get down ... into t…
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