Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications

The Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) is an American government enterprise established in 2011 at the direction of the President and the Secretary of State to coordinate, orient, and inform government-wide foreign communications activities targeted against terrorism and violent extremism.

Objective

Executive Order 13584, signed by President Obama on September 9, 2011, provides policy background and assigns interagency responsibilities to CSCC. In 2015, it was expanded to coordinate similar projects by other federal departments. It controls over 350 State Department Twitter accounts, as well as others from the Pentagon, the Homeland Security Department and foreign American allies.[1]

Anti-ISIS campaign

[2] Its current mission is to counter online jihadist messages and propaganda by rebutting them with "negative advertising" (or "trolling"). It has performed more than 50,000 online "engagements" in four languages: Arabic, Urdu, Somali, and English.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Intensifies Effort to Blunt ISIS’ Message. The New York Times. 2015-02-16
  2. ↑ Meet The State Department Team Trying To Troll ISIS Into Oblivion. ThinkProgress. 2014-09-18.
  3. ↑ Why It's So Hard to Stop ISIS Propaganda. The Atlantic. 2015-03-02.

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