The US State Department‘s social media arms have been much busier over the past few months trolling terrorist sympathizers and radicalization groups online via Twitter and Facebook. „Trolling“ probably isn‘t the most precise term for the injection of countering views into previously uninterrupted feeds, but it does sort of sum up the State Dept‘s end game, which is less set on converting would-be terrorists than simply preventing these accounts from running uninterrupted and unchallenged feeds.

Back in December of last year, Alberto Fernandez, who heads the State Dept.‘s „Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications,“ put it his way.