Christoph Waltz Quotes

How did ISIL grow? It's real simple: social media.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.

We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.

I believe it is actually fomenting the growth of ISIL; Donald Trump could be a recruitment poster for ISIL because he is fanning the flames of hate.

Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

Through the Internet, ISIS and other terrorist groups reach people they wouldn't ordinarily be able to reach.

It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Twitter is providing a communication device, a loudspeaker for ISIS. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence, you are providing material support. Twitter should be part of the solution. If not, they are part of the problem.

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.

ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.

We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

We obviously know that terrorist groups have become very reliant on social media.

One of the scariest things about ISIS is their ability to leverage social media to inspire individuals who have never been to Syria and Iraq.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.