Terror threat

Experts: ISIS's social media terrorist messaging far ahead of US government efforts to counter it

The U.S. government is a doing a feeble job of countering the Islamic State's social media propaganda designed to recruit foreign fighters and incite lone wolves into action, several experts said during a Senate hearing May 7.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs hearing on how jihadists are using social media was held just a few days after two gunmen were killed in Garland, Texas, trying to attack a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad.